Yalavarthi Naveen Babu (29 May 1964 – 18 February 2000), or simply Naveen, was a
Naxalite leader in
India
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.
Yalavarthi Naveen Babu was born on 29 May 1964 in Guddikayalanka village,
Bapatla district
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,
Andhra Pradesh
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, India.
His family were farmers from middle class background. Naveen studied at Babu Jagjivan Ram College,
Hyderabad
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, where he obtained a B.Sc.
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He moved to ]Meerut University
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in 1984, where he started studying for his MA in Sociology in 1984.
In 1986, he transferred to Jawaharlal Nehru University
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, Delhi
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, 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.[
The DRSO was part of the ]Radical Students Union
The Radical Students Union (RSU) was a frontal organization of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a Naxalite group.
Founded in 1974, it became defunct after 2005. In 2011 there were indications of plans to revive the organization.
History
...
.All India Revolutionary Students Federation
The All India Revolutionary Students Federation (AIRSF) was a frontal organisation of the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
History
The Radical Students Union (RSU) organised an all-India seminar in Madras in August 1981 to discuss the natio ...
, and became editor of its magazine ''Kalam''.[
In the early 1990s, Naveen abandoned his studies and joined the ]Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)
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as a full-time activist
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in the People's War Group
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(PWG).
He quickly moved up through the ranks to the Central Committee.[
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
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n countries.[
Naveen was killed on 18 February 2000 in a village near ]Visakhapatnam
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, Andhra Pradesh.[
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.
It has been described as "a modest but significant interdisciplinary contribution to Indian Marxist historiography, sociology and political economy".]
References
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1964 births
2000 deaths
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Indian communists
People shot dead by law enforcement officers in India
People from Guntur district