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Analyse the ideological and strategical features of Naxalbari movement.

  • UPSC 2002, 1999
  • Social Movements in Modern India

The peasant uprising in the Naxalbari area of Siliguri subdivision, Darjeeling district, West Bengal, of 1967, which became a national event with the police firing of 25 May that year, was the first Indian peasant movement to define itself as the opening of a revolution rather than the redress of a grievance. Analysing it means…

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  • The structural setting
  • Ideological features
  • Strategical features
  • Analysis: why the two diverged
  • Conclusion

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