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Paper presentation made by Kunal Majumder at Institute of South Asia Studies, National University of Singapore

Please note: All the opinions in this paper are entirely personal and does not reflect my publication’s editorial stand

On April 6 earlier this year, Maoists ambushed a heavily armed Central Rapid Police Force (CRPF) battalion in the jungles of Dantewada in Chhattisgarh, and blew up an armoured vehicle. Within hours, 76 soldiers were dead.