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Muzaffar Ahmed (politician)
Muzaffar Ahmad (known as Kakababu; 5 August 1889 – 18 December 1973) was an Indian-Bengali politician, journalist and a co-founder of Communist Party of India. Background Ahmed was born at Musapur village in Sandwip, Sandwip Island in Chittagong District of Bengal Presidency, Bengal Province in the-then British India (in present-day Bangladesh) to Mansur Ali and Chuna Bibi. Ahmed studied at the Asria Senior Madrasa in Bamni, Companiganj Upazila, Noakhali, Companiganj. He passed matriculation from Noakhali Zilla School in 1913. In 1918, he was appointed joint secretary of "Bangio Musalman Sahitya Samiti". In 1920, along with Kazi Nazrul Islam he started a new magazine, ''Nabajug''. Later, when another magazine, ''Dhumketu (magazine), Dhumketu'' was launched by Nazrul in 1922, he contributed to it using the pseudonym "Dwaipayana". Political movement Ahmed was one of the founders of the Communist Party of India. In 1922, the ''Bharat Samyatantra Samiti'' was formed in Calcutta w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the List of political parties in India#National parties, national parties of India. The party emerged from a split in the Communist Party of India (CPI) on 7 November 1964. CPI(M) is a part of ruling alliances in three states — the Left Democratic Front (Kerala), Left Democratic Front in Kerala, Mahagathbandhan (Bihar), Mahagathbandhan in Bihar, and the Secular Progressive Alliance in Tamil Nadu. CPIM has representation in the legislative assemblies of 8 states. The All-India Party Congress is the supreme authority of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). However, during the time between two party congresses, the Central Committee is the highest decision-making body. The Central Committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulika Books
Tulika Books is a New Delhi-based independent publisher of scholarly and academic books in the humanities and social sciences, with a "broadly left perspective." The Chennai-based Tulika Publishers is a sister company of Tulika Books. History Tulika Books was founded in 1995. It is managed by the Managing Editor Indira (née Indu) Chandrasekhar, who started her career as a copy editor with Macmillan India in the 1980s and also did some teaching in Bangalore and Delhi Universities. The authors published by Tulika include some of India's best known left intellectuals and academics. Tulika Books is one of the founder-members of the Independent Publishers' Distribution Alternative of India and the Independent Publishing Group. In 2014, it won the Printed Book of the Year award from Publishing Next for the book ''Project Cinema City''. The book falls into the Tulika Books' line of "art books," books on modern Indian art as well on modern Indian artists. In 2013, Chandra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meerut Conspiracy Case
The Meerut Conspiracy Case was a controversial court case that was initiated in British Raj in March 1929 and decided in 1933. Several trade unionists, including three Englishmen, were arrested for organizing an Indian railway strike. The British government convicted 27 leftist trade union leaders under a lawsuit. The trial immediately caught attention in England, where it inspired the 1932 play ''Meerut'' by a Manchester street theatre group, the Red Megaphones, highlighting the detrimental effects of colonization and industrialisation. Background The British government was clearly worried about the growing influence of the Communist International. It was also thoroughly convinced that all infiltration of communist and socialist ideas was propagated to the workers by the Communist Party of India (CPI). Its ultimate objective, the government perceived, was to achieve "complete paralysis and overthrow of existing Governments in every country (including India) by means of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meerut
Meerut (, IAST: ''Meraṭh'') is a city in Meerut district of the western part of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city lies northeast of the national capital New Delhi, within the National Capital Region and west of the state capital Lucknow. , Meerut is the 33rd most populous urban agglomeration and the 26th most populous city in India. It ranked 292nd in 2006 and is projected to rank 242nd in 2020 in the list of largest cities and urban areas in the world. The municipal area (as of 2016) is . The city is one of the largest producers of sports goods, and the largest producer of musical instruments in India. The city is also an education hub in western Uttar Pradesh, and is also known as the "Sports City Of India". The city is famous for being the starting point of the 1857 rebellion against Company rule in India. Origin of the name The city may have derived its name from 'Mayarashtra' (Sanskrit: मयराष्ट्र), the capital of the kingdom of Mayasura, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Raj
The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Quote: "Mill, who was himself employed by the British East India company from the age of seventeen until the British government assumed direct rule over India in 1858." * * and lasted from 1858 to 1947. * * The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and areas ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British paramountcy, called the princely states. The region was sometimes called the Indian Empire, though not officially. As ''India'', it was a founding member of the League of Nations, a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936, and a founding member of the United Nations in San F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Halim, Saroj Mukherjee, Muzaffar Ahmed1938
Abdul (also transliterated as Abdal, Abdel, Abdil, Abdol, Abdool, or Abdoul; ar, عبد ال, ) is the most frequent transliteration of the combination of the Arabic word '' Abd'' (, meaning "Servant") and the definite prefix '' al / el'' (, meaning "the"). It is the initial component of many compound names, names made of two words. For example, , ', usually spelled ''Abdel Hamid'', ''Abdelhamid'', ''Abd El Hamid'' or ''Abdul Hamid'', which means "servant of The Praised" (God). The most common use for ''Abdul'' by far, is as part of a male given name, written in English. When written in English, ''Abdul'' is subject to variable spacing, spelling, and hyphenation. The meaning of ''Abdul'' literally and normally means "Slave of the", but English translations also often translate it to "Servant of the". Spelling variations Variations in spelling are primarily because of the variation in pronunciation. Arabic speakers normally pronounce and transcribe their names of Arabic origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muzaffar Ahmed, Bankim Mukherjee, PC Joshi, Somnath Lahiri1937
Muzaffar, Muzaffer, or Mozaffar ( ar, مظفر; "the Victorious") may refer to: People Given name *Al-Muzaffar Umar (died 1191), Ayyubid prince of Hama and a general of Saladin *Muzaffar Shah of Malacca (ruled 1445–1459), sultan of Malacca *Muzaffar II of Johor (1546–1570), Sultan of Johor *Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar (1853–1907), Qajarid Shah of Persia * Muzaffar Ahmed (economist) (1936–2012), Bangladeshi economist *Muzaffar Ahmed (politician) (1889–1973), Bengali politician, journalist and communist activist *Mozaffar Alam (1882–1973), Iranian governor and politician *Muzaffar Alam (born 1947), American linguist *Muzaffar Ali (born 1944), Indian filmmaker *Muzaffer Atac (1933–2010) *Muzaffar Hussain Baig, Indian politician *Mozaffar Firouz (1906–1988) *Muzaffar Hassan (1920–2012), Pakistani naval officer * Muzaffar Hussain (other) *Muzaffar Iqbal (born 1954), Pakistani-Canadian scientist and philosopher *Muzaffer İzgü (born 1933), Turkish writer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdur Rezzak Khan
Abdur Rezzak Khan (1900–1984) Bengali anti-British freedom fighter, communist revolutionary and politician. He was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1969. Background He was born in June 1900 at Hakimpur, 24 parganas of Bengal Presidency, British India. Political movement During the Chittagong armoury raid led by Masterda Surya Sen, he secretly supplied arms. Santosh Kumar Mitra, a revolutionary martyr, was one of his companions. In 1922, he came in contact with Muzaffar Ahmed and Abdul Halim ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الحليم) is a male Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Ḥalīm'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which gives rise .... He was one of the founding member of the Workers and Peasants Party. He led a first time large-scale general strike of jute workers with Abdul Momin and others in 1929.{{Cite web , date=2015-06-25 , title=1929 – Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Halim (communist)
Abdul Halim (6 December 1901 – 29 April 1966) was an Indian-Bengali politician, and communist activist. He was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Council from 1952 to 1966. Background Halim was born in Burdwan district of Bengal Province in the British India.His father was Abul Hassan. Due to lack of funds, he was unable to complete his secondary education. Political movement In 1921, he joined Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement and was imprisoned. After his release, he made contact with Muzaffar Ahmad and Addur Rezzak Khan; and joined the Workers and Peasants Party. He was involved in the publication of ''Langal'' by Kazi Nazrul Islam and ''Ganabani'' by Muzaffar Amhad. When(1929-1936) Ahmad and others were imprisoned in the Meerut Conspiracy Case, he worked to organize the Communist Party. In 1933–34, he was influential in reshaping the CPI Central Committee. In 1925, he co-founded the Labor Swaraj Party alongside Hemant Kumar Sarkar, writer Naresh Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Swaraj Party
Workers and Peasants Party may refer to: * Workers and Peasants Party (Egypt) *Workers and Peasants Party (France) *Workers and Peasants Party (India) * Workers' and Peasants' Party (Japan) *Workers' and Peasants' Party (Liechtenstein) The Workers' and Peasants' Party (german: Partei der Unselbständig Erwerbenden und Kleinbauern, abbreviated UEK) was a political party in Liechtenstein. The party emerged from the trade union movement The labour movement or labor movement co ... * Workers' and Peasants' Party (Philippines) {{Disambiguation, political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemanta Kumar Sarkar
Hemanta Kumar Sarkar ( bn, হেমন্তকুমার সরকার) (1897 — 3 November 1952) was an Indian philologist, author, biographer, editor, publisher, union leader, leader of the Indian freedom movement and an associate of Subhas Chandra Bose. He was a close friend and the first biographer of Subhas Chandra Bose, the co-founder of Labour Swaraj Party in Bengal along with Muzaffar Ahmed and Kazi Nazrul Islam and led the movement for the Partition of Bengal and formation of Bengali Hindu homeland in 1947. Early life Sarkar was born in 1897 in the village of Baganchra near Shantipur in the district of Nadia, the fifth of six sons to Madan Mohan Sarkar and Kadambari Devi. His father was the owner of a banking business started by his great grandfather and his mother was the granddaughter of Raghunandan Mitra, the diwan of the Nadia Raj. In his childhood, Sarkar attended the Krishnagar Collegiate School. In 1912, Sarkar came under the influence of Beni Madhab D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaukat Usmani
Shaukat Usmani (Maulla Bux Usta) (1901–1978) was an early Indian communist, who was born to artistic USTA family of Bikaner and a member of the émigré Communist Party of India (Tashkent group), established in Tashkent in 1920, and a founding member of the Communist Party of India (CPI) formed in Kanpur in 1925. He was also the only candidate to the British Parliament contesting elections, while he was residing in India—that too in a prison. He was sentenced to a total of 16 years in jail after being tried in the Kanpur (Cawnpore) Case of 1923 and later the Meerut Conspiracy Case of 1929. In émigré Communist Party of India M.N. Roy, an ex-member of the Anushilan Samiti, a powerful secret revolutionary organization operating in East Bengal in the opening years of the 20th century, went to Moscow by the end of April 1920, and soon after founded the émigré Communist Party of India at Tashkent on 17 October 1920. The fledgling party became a part of Communist Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
