it began in the district of daughter squealing which is named for the tea or vice versa in west bengal. and for many decades this collection of maoist parties moan for the village where they started was contained largely in west bengal. but in the last 10-15 years they have advanced down the eastern coast of india along the eastern plateau. and you can look at maps, and it's very clear that at the same time what's happening is a drought has been extending down the eastern coast, and district by district where there is drought you later find this tribe showing up. and then the response of the state is counterinsurgency and more violence. and the way that the tribe feed off of drought sort of passes through the cotton economy frequently, or at least where i did my research. and the situation there is that, again, economic liberalization which in india has actually been associated with high rates of growth though in latin america economic liberalization was associated with low rates of growth, but it has also been associated with increased inequality and absolute immiss ration of many of