India’s Maoist Insurgency Nears Military Termination, but Post-Conflict Legitimacy Risks Persist
The source reports that India has sharply reduced the Maoist insurgency’s footprint by 2026 through leadership decapitation, improved intelligence, and expanded state delivery into former conflict zones. It argues that without durable reforms on land and forest rights, reintegration, and local legitimacy, structural drivers could re-emerge in new forms despite the decline of CPI (Maoist).