 "Dakshin Desh" is Hindi for 'Southern Land' (implied in this naming was that India was the 'Southern land' whereas China was the corresponding 'Northern land').Amulaya Sen and Kanai Chatterjee were the leading figures of the "Dakshin Desh"-group.In difference to CPI(ML), whose policies of armed struggle bordered individual terrorism, the "Dakshin Desh"-group upheld that mass mobilisations were requisites for engaging in armed struggle.