For a short history of the Maoists in India try OnlyPunjab.com and Rediff.com.

The Asian Centre for Human Rights did a thorough study of the conflict in Chhattisgarh in March 2006, an update report in January 2007 and also a review of Naxalism and the multitudinous private armies launched to fight it in September 2005.

Its site contains useful collections of news articles and monitors Naxalite violence. The People's Union for Civil Liberties, PUCL, also did an investigation in Chhattisgarh.

The New-Delhi based Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies monitors the Naxalite rebellions and periodically publishes papers about them.

The Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance produces a useful Asia-Pacific Daily Report cataloguing violence including that of the Maoist insurgency.

Meanwhile, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre has collated many sources on the Maoist insurgency.

The many radical communist parties of India are catalogued, along with the mainstream ones, on the website Leftist Parties of the World.

Naxal Terror Watch is an anti-Naxal site, with an up-to-date collection of news about the activities of Indian Naxals, and archives going back to November 2004.

The recruitment of child combatants was highlighted by the National Commission for Women in December 2006.

Useful local media sources include the Times of India, Frontline magazine, the Deccan Herald, and the Hindustan Times.