Naxalbari uprising

Naxalbari Uprising
	Part of the Cold War and Naxalite Insurgency
	; The South Asian communist banner
Date	1967
Location	Naxalbari, Darjeeling, West Bengal
Result	Indian Government victory Armed rebellion suppressed; Beginning of the Naxalite-Maoist insurgency;
Belligerents
India West Bengal Police; Supported by:; CPI(M); Bangla Congress	All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries All India Kisan Sabha; Local peasantry; Supported by:; Ceylon Communist Party-Peking Wing; Chinese Communist Party
Commanders and leaders
Indira Gandhi; Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee; Jyoti Basu; Hare Krishna Konar	Charu Majumdar; Kanu Sanyal; Jangal Santhal; Shanti Munda
Units involved
Indian Police Service; West Bengal Police	Siliguri group; Darjeeling group
Casualties and losses
1 police died	11 rebels died

Naxalbari uprising (Bengali: নকশালবাড়ি বিদ্রোহ, romanized: Nokshalbari Bidroho) was an armed peasant revolt in 1967 in the Naxalbari block of Siliguri subdivision in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India.^[2]^[3] It was mainly led by tribals and the radical communist leaders of Bengal and further developed into the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) in 1969. The armed struggle became an inspiration to the Naxalite movement which rapidly spread from West Bengal to other states of India creating division within the Communist Party of India (Marxist) - India's primary communist party.^[4]

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