Naxalite

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Naxalite [ˈnʌksəˌlaɪt]

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a member of an extreme Maoist group in India that originated in 1967 in West Bengal and which employs tactics of agrarian terrorism and direct action

[named after Naxalbari, a town in West Bengal where the movement started]

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