Question

Why did the movement start at Naxalbari area of West Bengal?

Answer 1

1. The Naxalite movement began in Naxalbari, West Bengal, in 1967. Long-term social and economic issues in rural Bengal triggered it.
2. The immediate cause was the peasants yearning for property rights and their uprising against greedy landowners who possessed enormous amounts of land despite laws forbidding it.
3. Naxalbari was chosen because tribal people and poor peasants had trouble getting land. The area’s agrarian unrest was exacerbated by land reform failure.
4. Charu Majumdar, Kanu Sanyal, and Jangal Santhal forced local villagers to take land on Maoist principles. The revolutionary struggle against feudal and state oppression began here.
5. Thus, Naxalbari was both symbolic and the genuine commencement of a larger, violent revolt to overturn rural organisations that were misgoverning people.