Gangadhar Adhikari

Gangadhar Adhikari
Gangadhar Adhikari
General Secretary of the Communist Party of India
	In office; 1933–1935
Preceded by	S.V. Ghate
Succeeded by	P.C. Joshi
Personal details
Born	1898
Died	1981 (aged 82–83)
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Communist Party of India
Occupation	Theoretician

Dr. Gangadhar Adhikari (1898 – 1981)[1] was a prominent Marxist theoretician and prolific writer.[2] He was the former general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI), one of the oldest political parties in India. He was a chemical scientist who earned his Ph.D. degree in Berlin in 1927. He worked with some of the best scientists, attending lectures by Max Planck and Albert Einstein.[3]

Biography

Portrait of 25 of Meerut Prisoners taken outside the jail. Back row (left to right): K. N. Sehgal, S. S. Josh, H. L. Hutchinson, Shaukat Usmani, B. F. Bradley, A. Prasad, P. Spratt, G. Adhikari. Middle Row: R. R. Mitra, Gopen Chakravarti, Kishori Lal Ghosh, L. R. Kadam, D. R. Thengdi, Goura Shanker, S. Bannerjee, K. N. Joglekar, P. C. Joshi, Muzaffar Ahmed. Front Row: M. G. Desai, D. Goswami, R.S. Nimbkar, S.S. Mirajkar, S.A. Dange, S. V. Ghate, Gopal Basak.

Adhikari was in Germany between 1922 and 1928 and was attracted to Marxism. He joined the German Communist Party. He returned to India in 1928 and joined the Communist Party of India. He was arrested in the Meerut Conspiracy Case. Albert Einstein wrote an open letter to the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald seeking release of the scientist Adhikari.[3]

Adhikari was elected the General Secretary of Communist Party of India in the National Conference held at Kolkata in 1933.

Adhikari was a member of the CPI Politburo 1943-1951.[4]

Adhikari's position on the national question, published in 1943 under the name Pakistan and Indian National Unity, was inspired by Joseph Stalin's Marxism and the National Question as it stressed the importance of a nationality to share a common language, a defined territory and a common national consciousness.[4]

He compiled the ten volume Documents of the Communist Party of India.[5]

Notes

"Adhikari, Gangadhar 1898 – 1981". Communist Party of India (Marxist). 20 February 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
"Latest Volume18-Issue12 News, Photos, Latest News Headlines about Volume18-Issue12". Frontline. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
Shaikh, Juned (2011). "Translating Marx: Mavali, Dalit and the Making of Mumbai's Working Class, 1928-1935". Economic and Political Weekly. 46 (31): 65–73. ISSN 0012-9976. JSTOR 23017878 – via JSTOR.
Kamran Asdar Ali (2015). Surkh Salam: Communist Politics and Class Activism in Pakistan, 1947-1972. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-19-940308-0.
Zene, Cosimo (23 October 2013). The Political Philosophies of Antonio Gramsci and B. R. Ambedkar: Itineraries of Dalits and Subalterns. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-49408-8.

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[1] "Adhikari, Gangadhar 1898 – 1981". Communist Party of India (Marxist). 20 February 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2020.

[2] "Latest Volume18-Issue12 News, Photos, Latest News Headlines about Volume18-Issue12". Frontline. Retrieved 19 July 2020.

[:0-3] Shaikh, Juned (2011). "Translating Marx: Mavali, Dalit and the Making of Mumbai's Working Class, 1928-1935". Economic and Political Weekly. 46 (31): 65–73. ISSN 0012-9976. JSTOR 23017878 – via JSTOR.

[s296-4] Kamran Asdar Ali (2015). Surkh Salam: Communist Politics and Class Activism in Pakistan, 1947-1972. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-19-940308-0.

[5] Zene, Cosimo (23 October 2013). The Political Philosophies of Antonio Gramsci and B. R. Ambedkar: Itineraries of Dalits and Subalterns. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-49408-8.