Word: charu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charulata" (A Woman Named Charu), an international award-winning film by Indian director Satyajit Ray, will be shown at 4 p.m. Saturday, at MIT Auditorium, Room 10-250. Proceeds from the benefit screening will aid Bengali refugees in India. For reservations, call Dr. S. Sarkar, 742-6583, ext. 303 or 306. Donation...
...quarrel began in 1967 over land reform. The government had imposed a limit of 25 acres per person on rural land holdings, but many feudal aristocrats had got around the measure by parceling out land to armies of relatives. After court attempts to untangle the land-reform problem failed. Charu Mazumdar, a member of the Marxist group, instigated a peasant revolt in the Naxalbari region of West Bengal. The leaders of Mazumdar's own party, fearful that the peasant revolt would spread, sent in armed police to put down the uprising. At least eleven women and children were killed...
Lack of Reform. About a year ago, in a tactical switch, the Naxalites went underground in the countryside. At the same time, they discovered a fertile new recruiting ground in the cities. The 50-year-old Naxalite leader, Charu Mazumdar, who conceived and planned the original 1967 uprising, exhorts students to quit school and form Red Guard units to stir up a peasant revolt. Now numbering perhaps 25,000 members, the Naxalite movement has recruited its most aggressive members from Calcutta's middle-class college students and graduates, frustrated by lack of opportunity in India's stagnant economy...