Shah, Alpa 
ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2006)
Markets of protection: the 'terrorist' maoist movement and the state in Jharkhand, India.
Critique of Anthropology, 26 (3).
pp. 297-314.
ISSN 0308-275X
Abstract
This article explores the continuities between the local state and the ‘terrorist’ extreme left-wing armed guerrilla Naxalite movement, the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC), in Jharkhand, Eastern India. The article shows how the MCC gained grassroots support by having greater control over a ‘market of protection’, and not through a shared ideology. This protection is a ‘doubleedged commodity’ – it is protection to access the informal economy of the state but also protection from the possibilities of the protector’s activities. In selling protection, the MCC competes in a market previously controlled by the state. The MCC increases its control over the market as an idea of its immense power – as well as fear of the organization, emerging from both its visible and invisible qualities, including its propensity for violence – is created among its targets. Unveiling this market of protection demonstrates the contested boundaries between the state and the ‘terrorist’ in rural Jharkhand.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://coa.sagepub.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2006 The Author |
| Divisions: | Anthropology |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2013 13:23 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:05 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/49032 |
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