11 November 2010 Last updated at 07:07

Audio slideshow: India's insurgents

Over the last 30 years 14,000 people have been killed and 40,000 displaced during an on-going conflict with communist, or Naxalite, insurgents.

For BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mike Thomson has been to India to investigate the impact of the insurrection and what is being done to curb it.

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Aftermath pictures of insurgent violence courtesy Chhattisgharh Police.

Photography and audio by Mike Thomson and Nina Manwaring. Slideshow production by Paul Kerley. Publication date 11 November.

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