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This is a significant reduction from the peak in 2007–09 when Naxalites were active in 180 districts in ten states of India, an area known as the "Red Corridor", which accounts for 40 percent of India's geographical area spread over 92,000 sqkm.
Nov 17, 2022 · Initially, the Naxalite movement originated in West Bengal and had later moved to the less developed rural areas in Southern and Eastern India, including in the states of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana.
The red corridor, also called the red zone or according to the Naxalite–Maoist parlance the Compact Revolutionary Zone, is the region in the eastern, central and the southern parts of India where the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency has the strongest presence.
May 3, 2024 · Naxalite, general designation given to several Maoist-oriented and militant insurgent and separatist groups that have operated intermittently in India since the mid-1960s. More broadly, the term—often given as Naxalism or the Naxal movement—has been applied to the communist insurgency itself.
In 2019, the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), known also as Maoists or Naxalites, raised their upgraded, more sophisticated weapons against mining corporations and development projects which threatened to expel indigenous tribes (or Adivasis, an umbrella term to describe tribal populations) from their ancestral lands in order to exploit...
Nov 12, 2019 · Naxal Movement in India: A Historical Anthology. RAJAT KUJUR. November 12, 2019. To understand the genesis of the Naxal movement, also known as Maoist/Left-wing extremism, one needs to locate it within the framework of the Communist movement in India.
Aug 6, 2007 · Through the snow-covered mountain peaks and valleys, the British Survey of India mapped the boundaries and put up the border markers along, what is known as the McMahon line. However, much of the remote and sparsely populated border region fell outside the administrative areas of independent India.
Jan 1, 2022 · India’s contemporary Maoist conflict originates from the Naxalite movement, which marked the first phase of violent revolutionary politics in postindependence India (1967–1972). It was triggered by the peasant armed struggle against exploitative agrarian relations which broke out in the rural area of Naxalbari, in the northern part of West ...
Chinmayi Venkatesh∗. This article focuses on Naxalism, a form of communism, in India, investigating the impact on children of growing up in Naxal-affected areas and the often-overlooked issue of child soldiers in India.
The term Naxalites comes from Naxalbari, a small village in West Bengal, where a section of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) led by Charu Majumdar, Kanu Sanyal, Ram Prabhav Singh and Jangal Santhal,J P Inspector initiated a violent uprising in 1967.
