Dandakaranya mostly covers Chhattisgarh's mineral rich Bastar region as well as India's most thickly forested Abujhmar hills where police believe the CPI-Maoist has a military headquarters and hideouts for its leaders.

The document makes several references to the LTTE, which the Sri Lankan military crushed in May, ending one of the world's longest running insurgencies.

It says that 'the setback suffered by the LTTE has a negative effect on the revolutionary movement in India as well as South Asia and the world at large'.

'The experience of LTTE's setback in Sri Lanka is very important to study and take lessons. The mistake of the LTTE lay in its lack of study of the changes in enemy tactics and capabilities and an underestimation of the enemy along with an overestimation of its own forces and capabilities.'

The CPI-Maoist asks its guerrillas to 'create more difficulties to the enemy forces by expanding our guerilla war to new areas and intensifying the mass resistance in the existing areas so as to disperse the enemy forces over a sufficiently wider area'.

At the same time, the party has said there was a need to 'protect the leadership and preserve party cadres and fighters by avoiding unnecessary losses'.

It wants 'weaknesses in the existing mechanism' rectified 'by avoiding everything likely to be exposed to the enemy through betrayers, arrested persons and party records'.

The CPI-Maoist has gone on the offensive in recent months, slaughtering police and paramilitary forces in Chhattisgarh and other states.

The Maoist movement in India began in 1967 in West Bengal's Naxalbari village because of which the rebels came to be known as Naxalites. Though hundreds of Maoists have been killed since then, they continue to operate in several states.