Naxalbari uprising

Naxalbari Uprising
	Part of the Cold War and the Naxalite-Maoist 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:; Communist Party of India (Marxist); Bangla Congress;	All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries; All India Kisan Sabha; Local peasantry;
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 officer died	11 rebels died

The Naxalbari uprising was an armed peasant revolt in 1967 in the Naxalbari block of Siliguri subdivision in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India.^[1]^[2] 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 led to the birth of Naxalism and the beginning of the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency, which rapidly spread from West Bengal to other states of India, and continues to this day.^[3]

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