rahul’s Reviews > The Absent State: Insurgency as an Excuse for Misgovernance > Status Update

As I finish Part one of the book, dealing with spread of Naxalism in India, a major attack is carried out by them.(Claiming to be their biggest attack). Put things into perspective. And this book was written four years ago.

"The world's largest communist insurgency. The world's oldest running ethnic insurgency. One of the world's most complex islamic insurgencies. Welcome to India, the toast of the world." -from the prologue