Gadchiroli Sees Decline in Maoism, Increase in Mining

Gadchiroli, the 'Favourite District' of Devendra Fadnavis, Sees Decline in Maoism, Increase in Mining https://thewire.in/politics/gadchiroli-the-favourite-district-of-devendra-fadnavis-sees-decline-in-maoism-increase-in-mining by Santoshi Markam

Vinod Mandavi, an activist with the Adivasi Vikas Parishad of Potegaon, accused the Gadchiroli collector of fabricating gram sabha documents in 2010, to falsely demonstrate public consent for mining. Allegations suggest that such counterfeit gram sabha documents were produced with the assistance of village gram sevaks in Damakondawahi, located in the Bande area of the ​​Etapalli block.

In 2023, the police forcefully shut down the peaceful dharna organized by tribal members from over 70 villages, which had persisted for about eight months in opposition to the Surjagarh mining. The protest against the mine in Todgatta lasted for 255 days in 2023,  People were forcibly removed from the area, huts were vandalised, and 21 individuals – including women – were detained. They faced false charges and were held in Chandrapur jail for 17-18 days before being released on bail. 

 

Retotalising Capitalism

Retotalising Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction to its History https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/retotalising-capitalism-a-very-short-introduction-to-its-history/ Jairus Banaji  In my Brief History of Commercial Capitalism, I argued that, in retrospect, Marx turns out to have been wrong to think of Britain as the incarnation of industrial capital that subordinated commercial capital, since the latter was entrenched at the heart of the British economy (as Geoffrey Ingham argued in the eighties) and a much better incarnation would soon emerge with the Second Industrial Revolution when modern vertically integrated firms would undercut the position of merchant firms in both the U.S. and Germany.

Chayanov’s idea of the vertical concentration of capital as the form in which capitalist firms tended to establish a more widespread domination over household producers in the countryside.

Rural exodus has been a major theme of the postwar decades...in China, whole villages are demolished and peasants expected to cope with the resulting loss of land by buying unaffordable social insurance.   In India, the state would like to be able to have comparable powers of coercion, but the caste ties of most farming communities gives them considerable leverage politically and makes widespread coercion impossible. What we are witnessing is the end of the peasantry in any viable sense of that term, but not in the straightforward ways that were once seen as key drivers of this process in many predictions on the Left.

https://files.libcom.org/files/brenner.pdf peasantry’s failure : landlords  create large farms and to lease them to capitalist tenants who could afford to make capitalist investments’ and cultivate them with wage-labour

1% Controls 60% of Total Wealth in India, Rich to Get Richer: Report

Only one per cent households control around 60% of the total wealth in India, indicating to the highlt concentrated nature of household wealth in the country. 1% Controls 60% of Total Wealth in India, Rich to Get Richer: Report - The Wire

According to a recent report by brokerage firm Bernstein, the super rich in India, estimated to be around three million households hold $2.7 trillion in liquid financial wealth, reported Business Standard.

“Although growth will continue to create opportunities across the pyramid, we think the rich will get richer. India’s uber-rich – an estimated nearly three million households – hold $2.7 trillion in liquid financial wealth, by our estimates,” observed Bernstein, reported Mint.

This rise of the uber-rich is also expected to increase the demand for professional wealth managers.

04/08/2025