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{{Infobox person
| name = Yalavarthi Naveen Babu
| image = Yalavarthi Naveen Babu.png
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 29 May 1964
| birth_place = Guddikayalanka, [[Bapatla district]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|02|18|1964|05|29|df=y}}
| death_place = Darakonda, Andhra Pradesh, India
| nationality = Indian
| other_names =
| known_for = his important book ''From Varna to Jati''
| occupation = Naxalite leader, Revolutionary Martyr
| criminal_charge = left wing Insurgency
| criminal_status = killed in encounter
}}
'''Yalavarthi Naveen Babu''' (29 May 1964 – 18 February 2000), or simply '''Naveen''', was a [[Naxalite]] leader in [[India]].

Yalavarthi Naveen Babu was born on 29 May 1964 in Guddikayalanka village, [[Bapatla district]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], India.
His family were farmers from middle class background. Naveen studied at Babu Jagjivan Ram College, [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]], where he obtained a B.Sc.<ref name=Daanish/>
He moved to [[Meerut University]] in 1984, where he started studying for his MA in Sociology in 1984.
In 1986, he transferred to [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], [[Delhi]], gaining an MA in 1988 and starting to study for a PhD.
The Delhi Radical Students Organisation (DRSO) was formed in 1986, and Naveen joined this group in 1988.<ref name=Myrdal2012/>
The DRSO was part of the [[Radical Students Union]].<ref name=Ramana2010>{{cite web
|url=http://www.idsa.in/event/MaoistMassOrganisationsandMassMovement_pvramana
|work=Institute for Defense Studies and analysis
|title=Maoist Mass Organisations and Mass Movement
|author=P. V. Ramana
|date=23 April 2010
|access-date=2012-04-26}}</ref>
In 1990, Naveen represented the DRSO in the national [[All India Revolutionary Students Federation]], and became editor of its magazine ''Kalam''.<ref name=Myrdal2012/>

In the early 1990s, Naveen abandoned his studies and joined the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)]] as a full-time [[activist]] in the [[People's War Group]] (PWG).
He quickly moved up through the ranks to the Central Committee.<ref name=Daanish/>
He took the lead in organizing an International Seminar on Nationality Struggles in Delhi in February 1996 for the All India Peoples' Revolutionary Forum.
The Coordination Committee of Struggles of Nationalities and Democratic Movements was formed as a result of this seminar, bringing together revolutionaries from different [[South Asia]]n countries.<ref name=Myrdal2012/>

Naveen was killed on 18 February 2000 in a village near [[Visakhapatnam]], Andhra Pradesh.<ref name=Daanish/>
He died in a firefight with police.
In September 2008, his MPhil dissertation was published as a book, ''"From Varna to Jati"''.
The book discusses the political economy of caste, tracing the evolution of the system in economic and socio-cultural terms.<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/Book-authored-by-naxal-released/article15307837.ece
|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]
|title=Book authored by naxal released
|date= 22 September 2008
|access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref>
It has been described as "a modest but significant interdisciplinary contribution to Indian Marxist historiography, sociology and political economy".<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.swb.co.in/taxonomy/term/1259/all
|title=Dalits Studies - From Varna to Jati
|publisher=Scholars without Borders
|access-date=2012-04-27}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist |refs=
<ref name=Daanish>{{cite web
|url=http://www.daanishbooks.com/products/From-Varna-to-Jati%3A-Political-Economy-of-Caste-in-Indian-Social-Formation-%E2%80%94-Commemorating-Scholar-and-Revolutionary-Martyr-Yalavarthi-Naveen-Babu.html
|work=Daanish Books
|title=From Varna to Jati: Political Economy of Caste in Indian Social Formation — Commemorating Scholar and Revolutionary Martyr Yalavarthi Naveen Babu
|access-date=2012-04-27}}</ref>
<ref name=Myrdal2012>{{cite web
|url=http://sanhati.com/articles/4579/
|title=Delhi - Naveen Babu Memorial Lecture
|author=Jan Myrdal
|work=Sanhati
|date=6 February 2012
|access-date=2012-04-27}}</ref>
}}

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