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- In 2007, it was estimated that Naxalites were active across "half of India's 28 states" which accounted for about 40 per cent of India's geographical area. The area under their control was known as the "Red Corridor", where according to estimates they had influence over 92,000 square kilometres.
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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.
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.
Nov 17, 2022 · Left-wing extremism has been a major threat to India since the 1960s. Many of these militant groups, for many years, had held the mineral-rich lands under their influence. Both the states and Central government, through a series of measures, had significantly improved their presence in the Naxal-infested regions.
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...
Dec 23, 2019 · Naxal extremism, also called Maoist mayhem, has increased in recent years, as s illustrated by. some instances in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Naxal attacks on police stations in Orissa’s Nayagarh ...
Commentaries. 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.
