(1918-05-15)15 May 1918 Siliguri, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died
28 July 1972(1972-07-28) (aged 53) Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Political party
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
Spouse
Lila Mazumdar Sengupta
Children
Abhijit Mazumdar
Alma mater
University of Calcutta North Bengal University Siliguri College Pabna Edward College
Criminal status
Death in jail
Criminal charge
Criminal conspiracy
Penalty
Jailed
Charu Mazumdar (Bengali: চারু মজুমদার; 15 May 1918 – 28 July 1972), popularly known as CM, was an Indian Communist leader, and founder and General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist).[1] Born into a progressive landlord family in Siliguri in 1918, he became a Communist during the Indian Independence Movement, and later formed the militant Naxalite cause. During this period, he authored the historic accounts of the 1967 Naxalbari uprising. His writings, particularly the Historic Eight Documents, have become part of the ideology which a number of political parties in India.[2]
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^"Charu Majumdar – The Father of Naxalism". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012.
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CPI, CPI(M) and CPI(ML). He eventually fell out with the mainstream CharuMajumdar group and died of a heart attack in March, 1971. Sushital Ray Chowdhury...
set of eight monographs authored by the Indian Maoist revolutionary CharuMajumdar that outline the ideological principles on which the Naxalite militant...
participation in the Electoral Politics. The leaders of AICCCR were CharuMajumdar and Kanu Sanyal. The first meeting if AICCCR in November 1967 was attended...
of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). Chattejee broke with CharuMajumdar in 1971 after the failure of the attempts to build an armed movement...
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of India (Marxist-Leninist) in Calcutta. Chatterjee broke ranks with CharuMajumdar in 1971 after the failure of the attempts to build an armed movement...
land was distributed amongst 2.4 million landless and poor farmers. Asok Majumdar (2011). The Tebhaga Movement : Politics of Peasant Protest in Bengal 1946-1950...
Shripad Amrit Dange S.K. Limaye Shibdas Ghosh E. M. S. Namboodiripad CharuMajumdar T. Nagi Reddy Saroj Dutta Kondapalli Seetharamaiah E. K. Nayanar Geeta...
was a prominent figure in the armed struggle of the Naxalites led by CharuMajumdar. Rana received Ananda Puraskar for his book Rajnitir Ek Jibon in 2018...
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Bengal. The insurgency was led by hardline district-level CPI(M) leaders CharuMajumdar and Kanu Sanyal. The Naxalbari movement was violently repressed by the...
Shripad Amrit Dange S.K. Limaye Shibdas Ghosh E. M. S. Namboodiripad CharuMajumdar T. Nagi Reddy Saroj Dutta Kondapalli Seetharamaiah E. K. Nayanar Geeta...
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