Naxalite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of any of several militant Maoist movements in India.

Word forms

Naxalite Naxalites

Etymology

Derived from Bengali নকশালবাড়ি (nokśalbaṛi, “Naxalbari”), the village where the movement originated in the late 1960s. See -ite.

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