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	~~== References ==~~
	~~{{Reflist}}~~

	== External links ==		== External links ==
	* [http://www.icawpi.org/ International Campaign Against War on the People in India]		* [http://www.icawpi.org/ International Campaign Against War on the People in India]
	* [http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/100lb-guerillas The French journalist, Vanessa's conversation with Narmada and several other Comrades], [[OPEN (Indian magazine)\|OPEN]]		* [http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/100lb-guerillas The French journalist, Vanessa's conversation with Narmada and several other Comrades], [[OPEN (Indian magazine)\|OPEN]]

			== References ==
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{{Infobox person
| name = Narmada
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_date =
| birth_place = [[Andhra Pradesh]]<ref name="Vivek Deshpande" />
| death_date = 4 December 2012
| death_place = [[Aheri, Gadchiroli]]
| nationality = Indian
| other_names =
| organization = [[Communist Party of India (Maoist)]]
| known_for = A [[Cadre (politics)|cadre]] and [[Central Committee]] member of the CPI (Maoist)
| spouse = Sudhakar
| image =
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| criminal_charge = left wing Insurgency
| criminal_status = killed in encounter
}}

'''Narmada''' (died 4 December 2012) was one of the "senior-most" female [[Cadre (politics)|cadres]] of the [[Communist Party of India (Maoist)]],<ref name="100lb">{{citation |url=http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/100lb-guerillas |title=100lb Guerillas |first=Rahul |last=Pandita |author-link=Rahul Pandita |publisher=[[OPEN (Indian magazine)|OPEN]] | date=18 September 2010 |access-date=19 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="Staff Reporter">{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/dreaded-naxal-leader-active-in-gadchiroli/article4292789.ece |title=Dreaded Naxal leader active in Gadchiroli |work=[[The Hindu]] | author=Staff Reporter |date=10 January 2013 |access-date=19 January 2013 |location=Nagpur}}</ref> a [[Communist Party of India (Maoist)#Legal status|banned]]<ref>[http://www.mha.nic.in/uniquepage.asp?id_pk=292 LIST OF ORGANISATIONS DECLARED AS TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS UNDER THE UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES (PREVENTION) ACT, 1967 – Ministry of Home Affairs] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510212307/http://mha.nic.in/uniquepage.asp?id_pk=292 |date=2012-05-10 }}. Retrieved 19 January 2013</ref> [[Maoism|Maoist]] [[insurgent]]<ref>{{cite book |title=South Asia Defence And Strategic Year Book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZlVXtIsXCxYC&pg=PA62 |pages=62–63 |authors=Deepak Kapoor, AVSM PVSM, SM VSM Chief of Army Staff (India) |publisher=Pentagon Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-81-8274-399-1}}</ref> [[communist party]] in India. She was a [[Central Committee]] member of the party,<ref name="Pradip Kumar Maitra">{{cite news |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Maharashtra/Senior-Naxal-leader-Narmada-killed-in-encounter-in-Gadchiroli/Article1-981635.aspx |title=Woman naxal leader killed in Gadchiroli |last=Maitra |first=Pradip Kumar |work=[[Hindustan Times]] | date=27 December 2012 |access-date=19 January 2013 |location=Nagpur |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130101175017/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Maharashtra/Senior-Naxal-leader-Narmada-killed-in-encounter-in-Gadchiroli/Article1-981635.aspx |archive-date=1 January 2013 }}</ref> and reportedly used to frame "all policies for the female [[People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (India)|cadre of Maoists]]."<ref name="100lb" />

== Family ==
She married Sudhakar ''alias'' "Kiran". [[B. Sudhakar]] is seen as a Maoist [[ideologue]], and is a member of CPI (Maoist)'s "[[publication]] division". He is also a member of the [[Politburo]] of the party.<ref name="Pradip Kumar Maitra" />

== Guerrilla life ==
Narmada was able to fluently communicate in seven languages, including English.<ref name="Vivek Deshpande">{{cite news |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/woman-known-for-beauty-terror-led-gadchiroli-naxal-attack/527955/0 |title=Woman known for beauty, terror led Gadchiroli Naxal attack |work=[[The Indian Express]] | last=Deshpande |first=Vivek |date=12 October 2009 |access-date=19 January 2013 |location=Nagpur}}</ref> She dropped-out the college<ref name="Pradip Kumar Maitra" /> and joined the CPI (Maoist) at an early age of 18, and she had spent over 30 years in the jungles as a veteran to the [[Maoism in India|Maoist movement in India]].<ref name="100lb" /> Her father was also a supporter of the [[communist]] ideology, and his words so touched her that she made her mind to join the [[Far-left politics|radical leftists]].<ref name="100lb" />

During an interview with [[Rahul Pandita]] and Vanessa (a French [[journalist]]), at an unknown time in the jungles of [[Dandakaranya]], Narmada said:
{{quote|"My father was a Communist, and in those times, a Communist was like a pariah. My father would talk about [[Naxals]] and say that they have broken away from the shackles of domesticity."<ref name="100lb" />}}

And, it was after that conversation with her father, that she decided to join the [[Maoist]]s.<ref name="100lb" /> She was active as the Divisional Secretary of South [[Gadchiroli]] division of CPI (Maoist).<ref name="Staff Reporter" /> She was the second female comrade to have been selected as a member of the Central Committee of the [[Far-left politics|radical leftist]] organisation, after [[Anuradha Ghandy]]<ref name="Pradip Kumar Maitra" /> (wife of [[Kobad Ghandy]]).<ref>{{cite news |url= http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/mumbai/Kobads-father-backed-cause-brother-in-law/articleshow/5048893.cms |title= Kobad's father backed cause: brother-in-law |work=[[Times of India]] | last=Bharucha |first= Nauzer |date= 24 September 2009 |access-date=19 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://news.rediff.com/special/2009/sep/23/kobad-ghandy-the-gentle-revolutionary.htm |title= Kobad Ghandy: The gentle revolutionary |publisher=[[Rediff]] | last=Bhatt |first=Sheila |date=23 September 2009 |access-date=19 January 2013}}</ref> She was also acting as the chief of the ''[[Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan]]'s'' unit of Dandakaranya region, which is among the top-most "women's organizations" in India when it comes to numbers of registered members, and [[Arundhati Roy]] says that it has 90,000 members.<ref>{{cite book |title=Walking with the Comrades |first=Arundhati |last=Roy |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] | isbn=978-0-670-08553-8 |pages=72, 76 |year=2011 |quote=Page 72: "Comrade Narmada talks about the many years she worked in Gadchiroli before becoming the DK head of the Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan." Page 76: "In 1986 it [CPI (Maoist)] set up the Adivasi Mahila Sangathan (AMS), which then evolved into the Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan and now has 90,000 enrolled members. It could well be the largest women's organization in the country."}}</ref> She had as much as 53 police cases registered against her name in [[Maharashtra]].<ref name="Staff Reporter" />

{{quotation|"After taking over reins of the Gadchiroli unit a few years ago, she set up five different [[platoon]]s -- an aggressive military force -- in her territory equipped with modern arms, ammunition and latest communication network to counter the state machinery."| [[Hindustan Times]]<ref name="Pradip Kumar Maitra" />}}

== Death ==
Narmada was reported to have been gunned-down during a fierce hour-long exchange of fire between the [[Maoist]]s and State's police forces on 4 December 2012, near Hiker village, bordering [[Abujmarh]] of [[Chhattisgarh]], in south Gadchiroli.<ref name="Pradip Kumar Maitra" />

The Maoists managed to escape the scene along with her body; and her body is reported to have been buried at Malwada tribal village in [[Kanker district]] of Chhattisgarh.<ref name="Pradip Kumar Maitra" />

After the encounter, the [[Superintendent of police (India)|Superintendent of Police]] (Gadchiroli), Mohd. Suvej Haq, said to media personnels: {{quote|"The [[naxalite]] managed to carry the body and fled the scene. The [[Military intelligence|intelligence]] sources identified the women naxalite killed in the encounter as Narmada. We also hear about it from our sources. Now we are waiting for the confirmation from the naxalite."<ref name="Pradip Kumar Maitra" />}}

She is reported to have been 57 years old when she died, by ''[[The Hindu]]'',<ref name="Staff Reporter" /> but [[Hindustan Times]] reports that she was 46.<ref name="Pradip Kumar Maitra" /> And, Rahul Pandita has written that Narmada's age was 48, when he and Vanessa interviewed her.<ref name="100lb" />

While the "police sources" also say that "Narmada Akka's funeral was carried out at a village in Chhattisgarh", the Maoists did not reach out to the [[Indian media|media]] following the incident.<ref name="Staff Reporter" />

== See also ==
{{Div col|colwidth=22em}}
* [[Socialism]]
* [[Communism]]
* [[Marxism]]
* [[Leninism]]
* [[Marxism-Leninism-Maoism]]
* [[People's war]]
* [[New Democratic Revolution]]
* [[Radicalism (historical)]]
* [[Left-wing politics]]
* [[Naxalite-Maoist insurgency]]
* [[Anand (Maoist)|Anand]]
* [[Anuradha Ghandy]]
* [[Azad (Maoist)|Azad]]
* [[Charu Majumdar]]
* [[Ganapathy (Maoist)|Ganapathy]]
* [[Kishenji]]
* [[Kobad Ghandy]]
* [[Kondapalli Seetharamaiah]]
* [[Kosa (Maoist)|Kosa]]
* [[Prashant Bose]]
{{div col end}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.icawpi.org/ International Campaign Against War on the People in India]
* [http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/100lb-guerillas The French journalist, Vanessa's conversation with Narmada and several other Comrades], [[OPEN (Indian magazine)|OPEN]]

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