Naxalite
Meanings
noun
- A member of any of several militant Maoist movements in India.
Word forms
Etymology
Derived from Bengali নকশালবাড়ি (nokśalbaṛi, “Naxalbari”), the village where the movement originated in the late 1960s. See -ite.
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