The India Factors In The Rising Of UCPN (Maoist)

In a difficult background where the International Communist Movement underwent a sharpdownturn after the Cold War, the UCPN (Maoist) still won the victory in Nepal democraticrevolution by overturning the feudal dictatorship and establishing the Federal DemocraticRepublic of Nepal at the roof of the world. The UCPN (Maoist) made an unprecedentedachievement in Nepali history, developed a different approach for socialist revolution, created anew form for the International Communist Movement,and surmounted the dependence on thetraditional socialism revolution paths. However, the UCPN(Maoist) has not been sufficientlyinvestigated in academic community despite its remarkable significance in Nepali history. Theissues and hypotheses still remained unresolved regarding to whether the success of the UCPN(Maoist) was associated with its international context and how Indian factors affected thedomestic political affairs of Nepal. Therefore, it has great practical significance and academicvalue to study the deep rooted causes for the Nepali political evolution and to clarify the IndianFactors in the rising of the UCPN(Maosit).This study attempted to investigate the UCPN (Maoist) from the perspective of the IndiaFactors. The Indian influence on Nepali political situation has not been sufficiently attended to inChina. The oversea scholars did not specifically investigate the Indian Factors' influence onNepali political status, with only a few implicit statements in their works. International factorsare often neglected in the current study of international relations. However, based on the basicprinciples of international relations, it is self-evident that in a globalized background, it isimpossible to study a nation's political status without taking into consideration of internationalfactors. Nepal is a case in point. The international factors exerted considerable influence on itspolitical turbulence and the rising of the UCPN(Maoist), with Indian factors in particular due togeopolitical influence. However, the past investigations focused more on the internal causesrather than international factors. Hence, this study attempted to probe into the Indian factors inthe rising of the UCPN(Maoist),as an academic respond to this topic.As a core concept for this study, the influence of India was further decomposed into thefollowing five factors: the Communist Party of India, Nepal Indian immigrants, the South Asiangeopolitical context, and the Indian government. This study identified that, as the origin of theUCPN (Maoist), the CPI exerted direct and far-reaching effect on the birth and development ofthe UCPN (Maoist). Nepal Indians provided broad social relationships and financial support,opening a new political battlefield. As the direct causes, the International Communist Movementin South Asia and the National Independent Movement of India provided favorable geopoliticalcontext for the infant UCPN (Maoist) and produced historic effects on its rise. The Indiangovernment, a core variable in the growth of the UCPN (Maoist), once adopted suppressivepolicies, but created an opposite acting force in the end. Far from inhibiting the UCPN (Maoist) development, those policies yielded reverse result, igniting a wide spread resistance to Indiaamong Nepali people,giving the moral support to the UCPN(Maosit) and enhancing the UCPN's(Maoist) political and social basis.As a newcomer in the Nepali political field, though growing and thriving with force, theUCPN(Maoist) won the power through 'ballot box'and brought new vigor to the political fieldin South Asia. The investigation on its rise would help us transcend the vision of presence toprobe into the effect of trilateral relationship among Nepal, India and China in a larger scale.Meanwhile, this study would also attribute to issues on how to protect China's core strategicbenefits in its absence and to the formulation of China's diplomatic policy to South Asiancountries.