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[46] [47] In July 1972, Majumdar was arrested by the West Bengal Police and he later died in police custody. [48] [49] After his death, the CPI-ML split into further factions such as the Mahadev Mukherjee faction and the CPI-ML Liberation in 1972. [50] By 1973, the main leaders of the Naxalites were either eliminated or arrested.
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]
The Naxalbari uprising was an armed peasant revolt in 1967 in the Naxalbari block of Siliguri subdivision in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India. [2] [3] It was mainly led by tribals and the radical communist leaders of Bengal and further developed into the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) in 1969.
Over the last three decades, at least 565 children in the Indian state of West Bengal have been injured or killed by home-made bombs, a BBC Eye investigation has found. ... also called Naxalites ...
28 May: Jnaneswari Express train derailment: At least 148 people were killed when the Jnaneshwari Express train traveling from Kolkata to Mumbai derailed in the West Midnapore district of West Bengal. The police alleged that the Naxalites caused the derailment by removing a 46 cm (18 in) piece of track, which was denied by the Naxalites. [99] [100]
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 Naxalite group mainly consists of the Maoist armed cadres of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). [4] These areas span parts of the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh , Bihar , Chhattisgarh , Jharkhand , Madhya Pradesh , Maharashtra , Odisha , Telangana and West Bengal .
The landlords fled to the towns and a big peasant movement began. Landlords’ crops were forcibly harvested. Around 150 people were killed. Santosh Rana was the key figure in virtually “liberating” Debra, Gopiballavpur and neighbouring areas in West Bengal, as well as in Odisha and Jharkhand (then it was Bihar).