Sudhangshu Dasgupta

Sudhangshu Dasgupta (1912 – 2003) was an Indian communist and freedom fighter. He was a Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and founder of the Desh Hitaishee, journal of West Bengal Communist Party. Dasgupta joined Communist Party of India in 1936.[1][2]

Sudhangshu Dasgupta
সুধাংশু দাসগুপ্ত
Sudhangshu Dasgupta in 1938
Personal details
Born(1912-01-30)30 January 1912
Barisal, British India (modern Bangladesh)
Died10 May 2003(2003-05-10) (aged 91)
Kolkata, India
CitizenshipIndia
Political partyCommunist Party of India (1936 - 1964)
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (1964 - 2003)

Early life and education

Dasgupta was born in Barishal on 30 January 1912. His father Motilal Dasgupta was an established kabiraj. He attended Banipith School in Barishal and passed Matriculation in 1927. He passed I. Sc. from Brojomohun College in 1929. He attended Carmichael Medical College (now called R. G. Kar Medical College) in Calcutta to study medicine. While in Calcutta, he got involved in the freedom struggle of India and got sent to Andaman Cellular Jail. After returning, he passed his BA and MA examinations in 1936 and 1938 from the University of Calcutta.[1][3]

Political career

In his student life, he got involved in the anti-imperialist struggle. He came in contact with Satish Pakrashi, Pannalal Dasgupta, Niranjan Sengupta. In 1930, in connection with the Mechuabazar Bomb Case, he got arrested with 23 others. In 1932, He was sent to the Andaman Cellular jail with other revolutionaries where he became acquainted with Communist ideas. He was one of the members of Communist Consolidation, an Indian communist organisation, formed by prisoners at the Andaman Cellular Jail in 1935.[1][2]

Dasgupta joined the Communist Party in 1936 and started working in the worker's movements.[2] In 1939, when "Samne Chalo", the weekly mouthpiece of CPI got started under the editorship of Abdul Halim, he got associated with it. He was associated with many magazines like "Janajuddha" (1942), "Swadhinata" (1945), "Crossroad" (1953).[1]

He was the founder editor of the Desh Hitaishee, the ideological journal of the West Bengal state committee of the Party in 1963. He took a firm stand against revisionism and became a member of the CPI(M) state committee in 1964 and continued in that position till his death. He was also a member of the state secretariat for a period. He was also associated with "Ganashakti" in 1967.[1]

He wrote numerous books on Marxism in Bengali including:[1]

  • "Marxbadi: Ki o keno?"
  • "Communist Manifesto Prosongo"
  • "Swadhinata sangrame soshostro biplobider bhumika"
  • "Comrade, somoy kothay?"

His wife was Communist leader Madhuri Devi. He died in 2013.[1][2]

References
  1. Basu, Anjali, ed. (1996). Samsad Bengali Charitabidhan (Vol. 2). Kolkata: Sishu Sahitya Samsad. pp. 438, 439. ISBN 978-81-7955-292-6.
  2. "Comrade Sudhangshu Dasgupta". Communist Party of India (Marxist). 9 August 2009. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  3. "Comrade Sudhangshu Dasgupta: A Model Revolutionary". pd.cpim.org. Retrieved 20 September 2012.


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