Amaresh Misra is an Indian writer and a self-professed revolutionary. He was the convener of the Anti Communal Front in

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state for

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for four years, until 2014. During his college years, Misra was a student leader of the Left CPI-ML (Liberation) party in the University of Allahabad. He co-wrote the script for the movie '' Bullet Raja''. He started the movement to restore India's pride in Freedom Fighters' contributions to its journey to independence.

Controversies

Misra is a proponent of several

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. He has claimed that the

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were organized jointly by the CIA,

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and

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. According to him, the Intelligence Bureau was behind the killing of the Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare. He wanted to rewrite modern Indian history to reflect an Indian perspective instead of the British accounts. He unsuccessfully contested the 2009 Lok Sabha elections from Lucknow on the ticket of Ulema Council. He joined the Congress party for five years after that. Today, he runs a peasant based Kisan Kranti Dal and Mangal Pandey Sena based in Uttar Pradesh.

Awards

* The Urdu Press Club of India gave Amaresh the Jasarat Award in 2007. * Aligarh Group with renowned historian Irfan Habib awarded him for historical work in 2022.

Publications

* ''Lucknow: Fire of Grace: The Story of its Renaissance, Revolution and the Aftermath'' (Delhi: HarperCollins, 1999) * ''The Minister's Wife'' (a novel—Penguin, 2002) * ''Mangal Pandey: The True Story of an Indian Revolutionary'' (Delhi: Rupa, 2005) * ''War of Civilizations: India AD 1857, Vols 1 and 2'' (Delhi: Rupa, 2007)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Misra, Amaresh Living people Indian National Congress politicians Year of birth missing (living people) Indian conspiracy theorists Uttar Pradesh politicians University of Allahabad alumni 20th-century Indian historians