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Naxalbari (Bengali: Nôkśālbāṛi; also spelled Naksalbari) is a village in the Naxalbari CD block in the Siliguri subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India. Naxalbari is known for being the site of a 1967 revolt that eventually led to the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency .
The Naxalbari CD block has an area of 181.88 km 2. It has 1 panchayat samity, 6 gram panchayats, 121 gram sansads (village councils), 98 mouzas, 78 inhabited villages and 6 census towns. Naxalbari police station serves this block [7] [8] Headquarters of this CD block is at Naxalbari. [9]
The term Naxalite originated from the name of the village Naxalbari in West Bengal where an uprising of peasants occurred in 1967. The movement itself is referred to as "Naxalism" and the people engaged are termed as "Naxals" or "Naxalites". The term "Naxalism" is broadly applied to refer to all the communist insurgent movements. [1]
Naxalbari, village in the northern part of West Bengal, India where the communist movement originated Naxalbari (community development block), containing the village; Naxalbari railway station; Naxalbari uprising (1967), which started the movement; Naxalbari, an Indian web series
The inspector of Jharugaon village was killed by peasant committee members. In retaliation, the police opened fire which resulted in the death of nine women and one child on 25 May 1967. [4] By June the peasant committees gained hold in the regions around Naxalbari, Kharibari and Phansidewa seizing lands, ammunition and food grains from the ...
The Naxalbari movement was a peasant revolt in 1967 in a small village in the Darjeeling district in West Bengal, Naxalbari. The movement was led by peasants living in Naxalbari who largely worked on tea plantation on large estates who had experienced oppression and exploitation at the hands of the landowners and moneylenders for centuries and ...
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Phansidewa CD block is bounded by the Naxalbari and Matigara CD blocks on the north, Rajganj CD block in Jalpaiguri district and Panchagarh Sadar Upazila in Panchagarh district of Bangladesh on the east, Chopra CD block in Uttar Dinajpur district and Puthia CD block in Kishanganj district of Bihar on the south and Kharibari CD block on the west.