The Naxalite movement started from the region of Naxalbari in
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → West Bengal
Note: The sentence saying that the Naxalite movement started from the region of Naxalbari (1967) in Bengal, in the section on peasant movements of the chapter ‘Social Movements’, was there in the pre-rationalised NCERT, which NTA followed in 2023. It has been deleted from the main text of the NCERT book (2025-26), though the chapter is still there and its box on the Naxalbari uprising still speaks of the events of 1967.
NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “8.5 Class Based Movements … Certain issues which had dominated colonial times changed after independence. For land reforms, zamindari abolition, declining importance of land revenue and public credit system began to alter rural areas. The period after 1947 was characterised by two major social movements. The Naxalite struggle and the ‘new farmer’s movements.’ The Naxalite movement started from the region of Naxalbari (1967) in Bengal.” |