Regional1967
Naxalbari uprising
Naxalbari · Darjeeling district · West Bengal · India
Estimated casualties
10 – 50estimated dead
Small initial death toll; the uprising's significance is as the trigger of the broader Naxalite movement.
SOURCEscholarly
An armed peasant revolt in 1967 in the Naxalbari area of West Bengal in which peasants seized land from landlords, sparking the broader Naxalite-Maoist insurgency in India. The localized revolt was quickly suppressed but became a lasting political movement.
Belligerents2
- Indian/West Bengal state
- Communist (Maoist) peasant insurgents
Sources
- Wikipedia: Naxalbari uprising
- UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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