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Juned Shaikh
Juned Shaikh is an associate professor of history at University of California Santa Cruz. He is the author of Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor (OrientBlackswan, 2021) and is working on a book on the Indian Marxist Gangadhar Adhikari.
Sixty years ago, the Communist Party of India split into two. Ideological differences have kept the successor parties apart – and will probably continue to do so – even as domestic politics keeps…