| Name(s) |
CHARU MAJUMDAR |
| Date of
Birth |
1918 - Siliguri, Bengal
Presidency, India (exact date not known) |
| Date of
Death |
July 28, 1972
(while in the lock-up) |
|
Identity |
A communist
revolutionary from India. |
|
Date-wise Events |
- 1967:
A militant
peasant uprising took place
in Naxalbari, led by his
comrade-in-arms Kanu Sanyal.
This group would later become
known as the Naxalites.
- April 22, 1969
(100th birthday of Vladimir Lenin):
He broke
away from the militant group and formed the All
India Coordination Committee of
Communist Revolutionaries
which on this day founded the Communist Party
of India (Marxist–Leninist)
- with Majumdar as its General
Secretary.
- July 16, 1972: He was captured from his
hide-out on this day.
|
|
General |
- Born in a progressive
landlord family in Siliguri in 1918,
he later joined the militant
Naxalite cause.
- During the mid 1960s he
organized a leftist faction in
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
in northern Bengal.
- Eight articles written by him
during the course of this uprising -
known as the Historic Eight
Documents - have been seen
as providing their ideological
foundation: arguing that
revolution must take the path of
armed struggle on the pattern of the
Chinese revolution.
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