Naxalite
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Naxalite
C20: named after Naxalbari, a town in West Bengal where the movement started
Example Sentences
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India in the last two years stepped up its campaign against the last remnants of the Naxalite rebellion, named after the village in the Himalayan foothills where the Maoist-inspired insurgency began nearly six decades ago.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
In the 1960s, while Nepal was ruled by an absolute monarchy, young men and women looked increasingly to ideas circulated during the Cultural Revolution in China and the Naxalite movement in India.
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2017
Yet the so-called Naxalite rebellion now spreads across a “Red Corridor” in India’s east and south and affects a third of the country’s administrative districts.
From BusinessWeek • Dec. 5, 2011
And Charu Majumdar, the founder and chief theoretician of the Naxalite Movement.
From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2010
And more recently, the inevitable rumor that he had become a Naxalite.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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