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‘Gripping’ SHASHI THAROOR’First-rate’ AAKAR PATEL’Illuminating’ RUPAM ISLAM‘Documents the unravelling of the communist experiment in the state’ BUSINESSLINE‘An insider’s account … of what led to the undoing of the once mighty left front’ INDIAN EXPRESS’Gangster State stands apart because it’s an exercise in self-criticism undertaken by someone from the party itself’ MALAYALA MANORAMA’Gangster State reminds us about the pitfalls of a political party extending its hegemony to produce state-party fusion’ NEWSLAUNDRYAfter reigning supreme in West Bengal for thirty-four years, how did the Communist Party of India (Marxist) end up on the fringes of the political arena?Allured by the unrestricted power of the CPI(M), Presidency College scholar Rajat Lahiri joins its student wing, the Students’ Federation of India, and trains to become one of its foot soldiers. On achieving full-fledged membership, he does not hesitate in getting his hands dirty for a regime inherited by Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee from an ailing Jyoti Basu, and marred by corruption and violence.
Author: Sourjya Bhowmick
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13: 9789390742967
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Product Edition: 2021
No. Of Pages: 343
Country of Origin: India
International Shipping: No
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