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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]
[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 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).
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.
Children in West Bengal are being maimed and killed by bombs, ... also called Naxalites – and government forces. ... "I struggle with drinking water, eating, showering, getting dressed, going to ...
The landlords fled to the towns and a big peasant movement began. Landlords’ crops were forcibly harvested. Around 152 people were killed. Santosh Rana was the key figure in virtually “liberating” Debra, Gopiballavpur and neighboring areas in West Bengal, as well as in Odisha and Jharkhand (then it was Bihar).
Debra CD block is largely a flood prone marshy wetland. In this block 100% of the cultivated area has highly productive alluvial soil. [4]Debra is located at . Debra CD block is bounded by Daspur I CD block in the north, Panskura CD block, in Purba Medinipur district, in the east, Pingla CD block in the south and Kharagpur II and Keshpur CD blocks in the west.
The Maoists called for a two long bandh starting from today in five states of India, including Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Orissa and Chhattisgarh to protest the re capturing of Lalgarh in West Bengal by security forces. [43] The security has been increased in these states and particularly in the three Maoist hit districts of West Bengal.