Tag: left wing extremism

By Afreen Hashmi, National Law University, Jodhpur. The Naxalite armed movement based on Maoist ideology has challenged the Indian State for more than 40 years now. In 1967, unequal land distribution and forced labour led to the first uprising that could be described as Maoist, in Naxalbari village, in West Bengal (where – the word Naxalite now…