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Naxalite movement of India has its base in a small village in WB called ‘Naxalbari’ and the movement gained its name.
Year was 1967 when small group of Communist Party of India (Marxist) members led by Charu Mazumdar, Kanu Sanyal and Jangal Santhal
decided to start an armed struggle against big landowners and forcibly take their lands and re-distribute it between landless.
Kanu Sanyal’s called an armed struggle which got its voice of support from Jangal Santhal who was the President of Siliguri Kisan Sabha.
At 18 June, 1967 he gave call for support to armed struggle and started fierce period in India that continues to have effect on lives of many people till today.
The Naxalite movement in India owes its origins to a small village in West Bengal called ‘Naxalbari’ and thus, the movement acquired its name. The year was 1967 when a small group of Communist Party of India (Marxist) members led by Charu Mazumdar, Kanu Sanyal and Jangal Santhal decided to initiate an armed struggle against large landowners and forcibly take away their lands and re-distribute it amongst the landless.
Kanu Sanyal’s call for an armed struggle got its first voice of support from Jangal Santhal, who at the time was the President of Siliguri Kisan Sabha. On 18 June 1967, he gave a call for support to the armed struggle and thus began a violent period in India that continues to have its impact on the lives of many people even today.
Within a week of his call for support, on 24 May, a local sharecropper in a village near Naxalbari was attacked and killed by goons sent by the local landlord. This incident became the first trigger for a period of violence that was to rock West Bengal and other parts of India for a long time. A small police party, led by a sub-inspector was sent to follow-up on the killing. A group of local tribals led by the fiery Jangal Santhal ambushed the police party and attacked them with bows and arrows, resulting in the death of the sub-inspector.
The word of the killing soon spread and more armed tribals began to come out in support of further action. What started off as a spontaneous uprising at the local level soon began to attract the masses in rural and subsequently urban areas. Common rural folk were increasingly attracted to the far left vision of a class and caste struggle to overthrow the existing order in favour of the landless and worker class.