TheHistoric Eight Documents are a set of eightmonographs authored by theIndianMaoistrevolutionaryCharu Majumdar that outline the ideological principles on which theNaxalite militantcommunist movement in India was based.[1][2] They laid down the idea that theIndian State was abourgeois institution and that the main Indian communist parties had embracedrevisionism by agreeing to operate within the framework of theConstitution of India.[2] They urged aMaoistprotracted 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 theNaxalbari uprising in 1967.[4][5]
