Shibdas Ghosh (5 August 1923 – 5 August 1976) was an Indian revolutionary and
communist
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politician. He was involved in the
Communist movement in India for several decades. He was also the founding general secretary of
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist).
SUCI(C) Central Committee's Homage to Shibdas Ghosh
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Ghosh was born in the Dhaka District
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of British India
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, to a lower-middle-class family. Passing 10th standard from his village school at the age of 13 he joined the Anushilan Samity to participate in the independence movement of India. He was attracted to Marxist ideologies at a very early age. In 1942 he joined the Quit India movement. He was later arrested and incarcerated for three years. There he thoroughly studied Marxism-Leninism. Later along with some colleagues such as Nihar Mukherjee he organised SUCI(C) in 1948. He died on his 53rd birthday in 1976.
References
External links
SUCI (C) Central Committee's Homage to Shibdas Ghosh
Selected speeches
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Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) politicians
Indian Marxist writers
Indian political writers
Stalinism
Anti-revisionists
Indian atheists
Anushilan Samiti
1923 births
1976 deaths
Indian male writers
Indian communist writers
20th-century Indian essayists
Bengali writers
Writers from Dhaka
20th-century Bangladeshi politicians
Bangladeshi male writers
Bengali Hindus
20th-century Bengalis
Indian newspaper journalists
Indian newspaper founders
Journalists from West Bengal
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