Post-independence and Cold War Contemporary history The Historic Eight Documents are a set of eight monographs authored by the Indian Maoist revolutionary Charu Majumdar that outline the ideological principles on which the Naxalite militant communist movement in India was based.
[1][2] They laid down the idea that the Indian State was a bourgeois institution and that the main Indian communist parties had embraced revisionism by agreeing to operate within the framework of the Constitution of India.
[2] They urged a Maoist protracted people's war to overthrow the Indian State.
[3] They denounced the Soviet Union both for being revisionist, as well as for supporting the Indian State.
[2] Both communist and non-communist sources describe these monographs as a significant inspiring factor for the Naxalbari uprising in 1967.