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{{Short description|A banned[4] women's organisation based in India}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan
| abbreviation = KAMS
| purpose = To fight against the exploitation, oppression and atrocities faced by women
| predecessor = Adivasi Mahila Sangathan
| founder = Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War
| dissolved = n/a
| parent_organization = [[Communist Party of India (Maoist)]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The Immoral Economy of Counter Insurgency in India |url=http://www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies/colloqpapers/05sundarpub.pdf |first=Nandini |last=Sundar |publisher=[[Yale University]] |accessdate=12 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131223114/http://www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies/colloqpapers/05sundarpub.pdf |archive-date=31 January 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Subalterns and Sovereigns |url=http://indiandemocracy08.berkeley.edu/docs/Sundar-Afterword_Subalterns_and_Sovereigns-AnAnthropologicalHistoryBastar%20.pdf |publisher=[[University of California, Berkeley]] |accessdate=12 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304121235/http://indiandemocracy08.berkeley.edu/docs/Sundar-Afterword_Subalterns_and_Sovereigns-AnAnthropologicalHistoryBastar%20.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| type = [[Voluntary association]]
| status = Banned
| num_volunteers = 90,000 – 100,000
}}
'''Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan''' (English: ''Revolutionary [[Adivasi]] Women's Organisation'')<ref name="Rahul"/> is a banned<ref>{{cite web |title=Contemporary anti-displacement struggles and women's resistance: a commentary |url=http://sanhati.com/excerpted/2923/ |first=Shoma |last=Sen |date=3 November 2010 |publisher=Sanhati |accessdate=9 September 2013}}</ref> women's organisation based in India. The Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan (KAMS) is a successor of the Adivasi Mahila Sanghathana (AMS).<ref>{{cite book |title=Broken Republic |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMXB6sGPk2kC&q=Krantikari+Adivasi+Mahila+Sangathan |first=Arundhati |last=Roy |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |year=2013 |page=87 |isbn=978-8184754841}}</ref> The foundation of the AMS was laid by the [[Maoist]]s in 1986.<ref name="TG-Arundhati-P4">{{cite news |title=Gandhi, but with guns: Part Four |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/27/arundhati-roy-india-tribal-maoists-4 |first=Arundhati |last=Roy |publisher=[[The Guardian]] — Books |date=27 March 2010 |accessdate=9 September 2013}}</ref>

==Aims and objectives==
The count of the KAMS's registered members is about 90,000,<ref>{{cite news |title=Understanding Well-Being of the Tribals in Naxalite Region |url=http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/arpanm/Understanding_Well-Being_of_the_Tribals_in_Naxalite_Region.pdf |first=Arpan |last=Maheshwari |publisher=[[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] |date=24 April 2011 |accessdate=9 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017154146/http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/arpanm/Understanding_Well-Being_of_the_Tribals_in_Naxalite_Region.pdf |archive-date=17 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> which ranks it amongst the top-most women's organisations in India when it comes to numbers of registered members.<ref name="TG-Arundhati-P4"/> But, [[Rahul Pandita]], in 2011, claimed that the members of the KAMS are estimated to number around 100,000.<ref name="Rahul">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IZ83V3JLXFMC |title=Hello, Bastar – The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement |first=Rahul |last=Pandita |publisher=Westland (Tranquebar Press) |year=2011 |page=96 |isbn=978-93-80658-34-6 |oclc=754482226}}</ref>

The KAMS concentrates on addressing various social issues faced by the women. The members of the KAMS crusades against the evil practises against women in the society like abducting the women and forcing them to marry against their will, [[polygyny]], etc. The organisation's members have also campaigned against the ''adivasi'' tradition of forcing women to stay away from the village and take shelter in the forest during her [[menstruation]] period.<ref name="TG-Arundhati-P4"/> The members also take a stand against the [[patriarchal]] mentality within their communities.<ref name="Outlook-Arundhati">{{cite web |title=Capitalism: A Ghost Story |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?280234 |first=Arundhati |last=Roy |publisher=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]] |date=26 March 2012 |accessdate=9 September 2013}}</ref> In [[Dandakaranya]], the ''[[adivasi]]'' men did not permit the women to sow seeds in the fields, but when the members of the KAMS approached the Communist Party of India (Maoist), the party held meetings (with the adivasis) to address the issue. While during the meets, the ''adivasi'' men have accepted their mistake and decided to refrain for such activities, they are yet to bring their resolution to practise. However, the CPI (Maoist) have ensured that the women are allowed to sow seed, raise vegetables, and construct check dams "on common lands, which belongs to the ''Jantana Sarkar''"<ref name="TG-Arundhati-P4"/> (people's government).<ref name="TG-Arundhati-P2">{{cite news |title=Gandhi, but with guns: Part Two |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/27/arundhati-roy-india-tribal-maoists-2 |first=Arundhati |last=Roy |publisher=The Guardian — Books |date=27 March 2010 |accessdate=12 September 2013}}</ref>

In [[Bastar district|Bastar]], the KAMS members have rallied with hundreds in numbers to highlight the atrocities by the police, and a few times the attendance figure have been in thousands to "physically confront" the police.<ref name="TG-Arundhati-P4"/>

[[Arundhati Roy]] writes,
{{Quote|"The very fact that the KAMS exists has radically changed traditional attitudes and eased many of the traditional forms of discrimination against women."<ref name="TG-Arundhati-P4"/>}}

The organisation's members also addresses problems like [[forced migration]] and other political issues as well.<ref name="TH-1158114">{{cite news |title=Institutions of democracy weak |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/institutions-of-democracy-weak/article1158114.ece |work=[[The Hindu]] |location=Kochi |date=5 February 2011 |accessdate=9 September 2013}}</ref> Roy says that the KAMS has also been opposing [[mining]] in the Dandakaranya region.<ref name="Outlook-Arundhati"/>

==Alleged atrocities by Salwa Judum==
A senior worker from the KAMS told Arundhati Roy that after facing "bestial sexual mutilation" and getting raped by the [[Salwa Judum]] members, several of the organisation's members have left the KAMS and joined the CPI (Maoist). A number of girls, who were not the members of the KAMS but witnessed the atrocities upon the KAMS members by the Salwa Judum members, have also joined the Maoists.<ref name="TG-Arundhati-P4"/>

==Legal status==
The KAMS was reported to be a [[Front organization|frontal organisation]] of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War]], and was thus banned.<ref>{{cite news |title=New guerrilla squad emerges in Madhya Pradesh |url=http://hindu.com/2005/08/18/stories/2005081810950500.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114000109/http://hindu.com/2005/08/18/stories/2005081810950500.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 November 2013 |location=Bhopal |date=18 August 2005 |work=[[The Hindu]] |accessdate=9 September 2013}}</ref> Arundhati Roy says that the [[Government of India]] can "wipe out" all the 90,000 members of the organisation, any time.<ref name="TH-1158114"/> She writes,
{{Quote|"I went with a very firm prejudice. That in an armed struggle, women were at the receiving end of violence. But I was disabused. I saw 48 percent of the guerrillas were women. They had come after watching their mothers and sisters being raped, houses burnt down, or to escape the patriarchy of their own society. The Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan (a women’s organization in Chhattisgarh state) has 90,000 members and is probably the biggest feminist movement in India. But they are all called terrorists and are liable to be shot on sight."<ref name="CDAW-104815">{{cite web |title=Girl who kicked the hornet's nest |url=http://www.chinadailyasia.com/news/2011-06/14/content_104815.html |first=Sudeshna |last=Sarkar |publisher=[[China Daily#Asia Weekly|China Daily (Asia Weekly)]] |year=2011 |accessdate=9 September 2013}}</ref>}}

==See also==
* [[Chetna Natya Manch]]
* [[Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti]]
* [[Nari Mukti Sangh]]
* [[National Federation of Indian Women]]

==References==
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[[Category:Communist Party of India (Maoist)]]
[[Category:Feminist organisations in India]]
[[Category:Women's wings of political parties in India]]
[[Category:Maoist organisations in India]]
[[Category:Women's wings of communist parties]]

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->কুউ পুলক at 15:53, 3 September 2021