Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public major research university located in New Delhi,India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru,India's first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties and research emphasis on social sciences and applied sciences.
The insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir,also known as the Kashmir insurgency, is an ongoing separatist militant insurgency against the Indian administration in Jammu and Kashmir,a territory constituting the southwestern portion of the larger geographical region of Kashmir,which has been the subject of a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.
Amrik Singh was the President of the All India Sikh Students Federation. He was killed in the Indian Army's operation on the Golden Temple on June 6,1984.
The red corridor,also called the red zone,is the region in the eastern,central and the southern parts of India where the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency has the strongest presence. It has been steadily diminishing in terms of geographical coverage and number of violent incidents,and in 2021 it was confined to 25 "most affected" and 70 "total affected" districts across 10 states in two coal rich,remote,forested hilly clusters in and around Dandakaranya-Chhattisgarh-Odisha region and tri-junction area of Jharkhand-Bihar and-West Bengal.
The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict between Maoist groups known as Naxalites or Naxals and the Indian government. The influence zone of the Naxalites is called the red corridor,which has been steadily declining in terms of geographical coverage and number of violent incidents,and in 2021 it was confined to the 25 "most affected" locations and 70 "total affected" districts across 10 states in two coal-rich,remote,forested hilly clusters in and around the Dandakaranya-Chhattisgarh-Odisha region and the tri-junction area of Jharkhand-Bihar and-West Bengal. The Naxalites have frequently targeted tribal,police and government workers in what they say is a fight for improved land rights and more jobs for neglected agricultural labourers and the poor.
Operation Green Hunt is the name used by the Indian media to describe the "all-out offensive by paramilitary forces and the states forces" against the Naxalites. The operation is believed to have begun in November 2009 along five states in the "Red Corridor."
The April 2010 Dantewada Maoist attack was an 6 April 2010 ambush by Naxalite-Maoist insurgents from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) near Chintalnar village in Dantewada district,Chhattisgarh,India,leading to the killing of 76 CRPF policemen and 8 Maoists —the deadliest attack by the Maoists on Indian security forces.
The Chhattisgarh Police is the law enforcement agency for the state of Chhattisgarh in India. The agency is administered by the Department of Home Affairs of the Government of Chhattisgarh. The force has specialized units to fight the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency in some districts of the state.
Secession in India typically refers to state secession,which is the withdrawal of one or more states from the Republic of India. Whereas,some have wanted a separate state,union territory or an autonomous administrative division within India. Many separatist movements exist with thousands of members,however,some have low local support and high voter participation in democratic elections. However,at the same time,demanding separate statehood within under the administration of Indian union from an existing state can lead to criminal charges under secession law in India. India is described as a ‘Union of States’in Article 1 of the Indian constitution I.e indestructible nation of destructible states where a state or Union territory of India can't secede from India by any means.
On 25 May 2013,Naxalite insurgents of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) attacked a convoy of Indian National Congress leaders in the Jhiram Ghati,Darbha Valley in the Sukma district of Chhattisgarh,India. The attack caused at least 27 deaths,including that of former state minister Mahendra Karma and Chhattisgarh Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel. Vidya Charan Shukla,a senior Congress leader,succumbed to his injuries on 11 June 2013.
Kadari Satyanarayan Reddy,commonly known by his nom de guerre,Kosa,was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist),a banned Maoist insurgent communist party in India.
Rahul Pandita is an Indian author and journalist.
Nivedita Menon is a writer and a professor of political thought at Jawaharlal Nehru University,Delhi. She previously taught at Lady Shri Ram College and the Department of Political Science at Delhi University.
The Maoist Communist Party of Manipur is a Maoist political party in Manipur which aims "to establish a communist society through armed revolutionary war." The Maoist Communist Party of Manipur also intends at liberating the people of Manipur from whom they view as "colonial India."
The Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus,or Pandits,is their early-1990 migration,or flight,from the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley in Indian-administered Kashmir following rising violence in an insurgency. Of a total Pandit population of 120,000–140,000 some 90,000–100,000 left the valley or felt compelled to leave by the middle of 1990,by which time about 30–80 of them are said to have been killed by militants.
Shehla Rashid Shora is an Indian human rights activist who has pursued her Ph.D. at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was vice-president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) in 2015–16 and was a member of the All India Students Association (AISA). She rose to prominence whilst leading the student agitation calling for the release for Kanhaiya Kumar,Umar Khalid and others who were arrested on charges of sedition in February 2016 for participating and organizing sloganeering in JNU.
Mridu Rai is an Indian historian who serves as the Professor at Presidency University,Kolkata. Rai is the author of the prizewinning book Hindu Rulers,Muslim Subjects:Islam,Rights,and the History of Kashmir (2004).
Baccha Prasad Singh alias Balraj alias Arvind is an Indian Maoist politician and Politburo member of Communist Party of India (Maoist)
Amita Singh is an Indian political scientist,currently serving as a professor of law and governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University,in Delhi,India. She is also a member of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. She is the recipient of numerous awards,and has published widely on public administration in India. Singh has been criticized for controversial statements made regarding Dalits,Muslims,and Jammu and Kashmir.
