Bangladesh, Dec. 10 -- In recent years, India has witnessed a subtle yet significant ideological shift as several Maoist cadres and sympathizers have begun returning to the mainstream. This transition is not an isolated development; it reflects a broader transformation within Indias political ecosystem, shaped by evolving socio-economic realities, the ideological exhaustion of violent extremism, and the growing penetration of state-led development in previously insurgency-dominated regions.

Ideological fatigue and erosion of revolutionary narrative

At the heart of the Maoist movement lay a vision of armed revolution inspired by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism—an ideology that glorified the overthrow of the state through violence. But over...