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    300 : Elections in Chhattisgarh: Maoists, Turnout, NOTA and Clues for India

    Robin Jeffrey is Visiting Research Professor at the ISAS, Ronojoy Sen is Senior Research Fellow at ISAS

    15 November 2013

    A crucial Indian election season began on 11 November 2013 with the first round of polling in a state where rural insurgency has claimed hundreds of lives in the past ten years and where “Maoist” groups control large, remote tracts.