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The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict between Maoist groups known as Naxalites or Naxals (a group of communists supportive of Maoist political sentiment and ideology) and the Indian government.
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.
The Naxalite-Maoist insurgency again gained international media attention after the 2013 Naxal attack in Darbha valley resulted in the deaths of around 24 Indian National Congress leaders, including the former state minister Mahendra Karma and the Chhattisgarh Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel.
Aug 5, 2020 · The Naxalite-Maoist insurgency of India is characterised by its extended longevity and capacity to gain sustained support across from 1967 to the present day.
• Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict between Maoist groups, known as Naxalites and the Indian government. • Has a long history of 42 years. • "The single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by India” - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh called the Naxalites (2006) PROLOGUE
Mar 28, 2021 · The Naxalite problem refers to a Maoist insurgency and peasant movement known to have originated from the namesake village of Naxalbari in West Bengal in the 1960s, where a Maoist agrarian revolution attempted to repossess land from zamindars (landowners) and the state. [14] .
Oct 3, 2016 · India’s long-running class-based, economic insurgency—the Naxalite insurgency (or Community Party of India [CPI]-Maoist insurgency)—is a case study in which external security partnerships will remain limited, if not mostly unwelcomed, in New Delhi.
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...
Feb 6, 2019 · This article addresses the long-term effects of colonial rule through an analysis of India’s Naxalite insurgency—a Maoist uprising largely supported by low castes and indigenous tribal groups. 1 The insurgency now dates back over half a century and was famously billed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as “the single biggest internal ...
Niranjan Sahoo, “Half a Century of India’s Maoist Insurgency: An Appraisal of State Response”, ORF Occasional Paper No. 198, June 2019, Observer Research Foundation. In 2006, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh named Maoist insurgency as “the single biggest internal-security challenge”[i] the country has ever faced.
