INDIAN COMMUNIST FIGURES IN CALCUTTA

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005403652
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2009
• Case Number: F-2009-01036
• Publication Date: March 1, 1949

PLACE
ACQUIRED
8hi, ram Chakravarty, author, Wm rist, and reported Comunist, is a rs ,cber
of the friends of the SovietUnion. -Born in Calcutta in 1908, Chakravaxty
it the age of 15 joined .^.kandl4's nor-cooperation moveuent: He was im-
prisoned on mre than one occasion for his activities with that movermut,
As an author, his works have included drama, humor ua poetry,, and political
and histarioal essays. In his book, 'losccu-va. Pondioherrr, he extolls
Bolshevism and the doctrines of Karl TtPEin comparison With the teachings
of folini Xante Gupta and other spiritual leaders of India,
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Com unist author, was borai in 19013. in the village of Bidgaon
the Dacca district of cast: Pakistan, rdueated in 11oakhali
he has received M.A. and ILL, decrees,but does not, however,,
Haider was imprisoned during the years 1932-37 for revolu-
practi.oe I
tionary ac
activities
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and Cal
Co=mnism
where he
rant -and
ivities. Ile was recently interned in Calcutta for subversive
under the Rest Bengal Security Act.. This was shortly after the
t the Commnist Party In West Bengal A person who takes his
eriouily, Helder is 'a leader of the Bengal Peasant Moves nt
occupied with the practical aspects of Com tnism, i.e. recruit>-
nversion to Comnunist ideals. A fornmr editor of the Pariy,
nist Bev, ali monthly ma;;a.7ino,, Milder has written a num r o_.
boo?ta, includin EEkkada and Ai. JuFsrr Juddha7 and has contributed to 'The
!bdern Review and ~the Prabaabi
Snehangsu Aoharyya, also known as Dodo, has championed the cause of pro-
Comrinist elens'nts in the Data labor union. Aoharyya is the youngest son
of the late ''ahareja Sasi Rants Aaharyya of Nty>mnsin h, Bengal. He is a
well-educated Bengali, a prominent barrister at the Calcutta High Gouct,
and considered to be an industrialist; having an Interest in the Data Co.
as a shareholder. He also eonc-ms himself with many public institutions
and charities and is considered a public leader in the cormsamity.
Vivekananda. Piukerjee, born in 1904, is a Communist journalist. He began
his Journalistic career at the a-;e of 21 as an apprentice on, the Anei.'la
Bazar Patrika the largest Bengali daily new,rspaper, and worked his way up
to e. pow s t~on of Joint, editor. In 1937 he left the latter raper and
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another Ben
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ucirlha Diary
of publication Another of his p
iso, banned shortly aftn pubiaoati:
bakeri~i e is the nd has written
ea}it (tire Centaarv: Song), spas
security Act within sir
teal works, Na?'ka (fah: ?erode)
and the, pub1ie p le irpri soned.
an Ganguly, born in 1918, is a pro-Ganamuni t professor of Ben i.
afore at City College., Calcutta.
He received an M.A. degree from
Calcutta University. A prolifiawritsx, his first novel, U x t Y (.Colony),
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short
vaPa.auX.e.am, aOss we ,s kanown an ins nuuerous wr'a.'51ngs, P43
a and articles appear in almost all Bengali journals of re
mid Baitaalik.
Satyendra Nath Mazumdar was born in 1893 at T+in.gail, a sub-division of
Mymensingh, Gast Pakistan. A Journalist, editor of Sw , I is a co'iirnnznst
and president of the Friends of the Soviet Union. 3171a early career irioluded
work as an employee of the CoochBehar State, cloth merchant in Galcutta,
the theatre as an actor, and a, position with the, Hixiduathan Insurance Co.
`He started in journalism as a sub-editor to the now defunct. Bengali :unthl'yr
N y m. From 1920 to 1921. he was ersrployead in an editorial capacity on the
Ana a Bazar PatriKa, and after that became an editor on the Ju ntar.
"rzrin1 rcoe3nt -09 -The has been. editor of the t as ali weekly- l ranrtsiad
the daily Swaraj. These latter two paper= are presently;banne under the
west Bengaal Security Act. The Swaraj was a particularly stron-s; orf;