Dilip Bagchi

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{{short description|Indian Bengali politician}}
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'''Dilip Bagchi''' (1935 — 11 January 2007) was a [[Bengalis|Bengali]] mass singer, educationist and political activist. He was an active member of [[Indian People's Theatre Association]] of [[West Bengal]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WcF1AwAAQBAJ&q=dilip+bagchi&pg=PA359|title=Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media|last=John D. H. Downing|date=28 October 2010|isbn=9781452266329|access-date=19 December 2017}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Bagchi was born in Tantihand village, [[Pabna District]] in [[Bangladesh]]. His family was attached with political and revolutionary activities in [[British India]]. His father, Durgadas Bagchi, was a member of the [[Jugantar]] group and elder brother took part in the [[Royal Indian Navy mutiny]] in 1946. After the partition, he came to [[Bankura]] and got admission in the [[Howrah Zilla School]] with his batch mate, veteran actor [[Soumitra Chatterjee]]. Bagchi regularly performed in school drama with Chatterjee, as a stage singer.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Charu Majumdar Sankhya (Bengali)|last=Vol - 8|first=Dilip Bagchi: Jibanpanji|publisher=Ebong Jalark|year=2013|location=Kolkata|pages=201}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Ek Osadharan Sadharan Manush (Bengali)|last=Tapas Chakraborty & Shankar Sanyal|publisher=Association for Protection of Democratic Rights|year=2013|location=Krishnagar|pages=24, 31, 212, 230, 245}}</ref>

== Cultural movement ==
He was initially dismissed from the school for having connection with the banned Communist party but latter joined in [[Narasinha Dutt College]], [[Howrah]]. Since college life he became an active member of [[Indian People's Theatre Association]] (IPTA), [[Howrah district|Howrah District]] and latter joined in student and cultural wings of the [[Communist Party of India]]. Due to the political and cultural works he did not completed the graduation and again admitted into [[Krishnagar Government College]]. In the time of 1956 flood of West Bengal he took part in rescue team and collected fund roaming with the villages. That point of time Bagchi composed several mass, folk songs. His family was dead against those activities and sent him to [[Mumbai]] but Bagchi kept contact with [[Salil Chowdhury]], [[Ruma Guha Thakurta]], Basu Bhattacharya and others Bengali cultural political personalities there. It helped him to represent the Bengal in National conference of IPTA in [[Delhi]]. As per direction of Party congress of the communist party 1957 he went to the villagers again and worked with labours and farmers. Due to his singing ability he organised peasant association in [[Nadia district|Nadia]] and [[Murshidabad district]] successfully.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Sanskriti: Sangharsha O Nirman (Bengali)|last=Prabir Ghosh|publisher=Dey's Publishing|year=1993|isbn=81-7079-289-4|location=Kolkata|pages=65}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Sei Dashak (Bengali)|last=Pulakesh Mondal, Joya Mitra|publisher=Papirus|year=1994|location=Kolkata|pages=47, 48}}</ref><ref name=":1" />

== Politics ==
In 1951, Bagchi got the membership of the communist party. In 1962, at the time of [[Sino-Indian War]], he was arrested under the [[Defence of India act and Defence of India rules, 1962|Defence of India Act]] and sent to [[Baharampur]] Jail. He wrote a number of songs while in jail. Before the 1964 Party Congress of the Communist Party, he created a secrete Bolshevik Core with other comrades to fight against revisionism. His team was known as Surya Sen group.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vrPrDAAAQBAJ&q=%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%AA+%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%80&pg=PT247|title=Sattar Dashak (Bengali)|last=Vol 3|first=Anil Acharya|date=26 October 2013|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> While studying M.A in [[North Bengal University]], he worked for the Left Front,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/200712/5/14%20_%20chapter%20vi.pdf|title=Involvement of the Students in the Naxalbari Peasant Movement|access-date=24 June 2018}}</ref> became General Secretary of the students union and latter met with [[Charu Majumdar]] in Siliguri.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Buker Pathar|last=Sunil Gangopadhyay|publisher=Ananda Publishers|year=1995|isbn=81-7215-430-5|location=Kolkata|pages=94}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Arun|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MLu5AAAAIAAJ&q=Dilip+Bagchi|title=Maoist "spring Thunder": The Naxalite Movement 1967-1972|date=2007|publisher=K.P. Bagchi & Company|isbn=978-81-7074-303-3|language=en}}</ref> But Majumdar negated his line of action. Bagchi wrote the first song on [[Naxalbari uprising]] in Kamtapuri dialect of the Rajbanshis ''<nowiki/>'O Naxal Naxal Naxalbarir Maa''' which was popular to the Naxalites members.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/requiem-for-a-song-sung-true/cid/1456912|title=Requiem for a song sung true|first=Moumita|last=Chaudhuri|date=27 May 2018|newspaper=The Telegraph|location=India|access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> On 22 August 1967 he organised a public meeting in the presence of [[Utpal Dutt]] in [[Siliguri]] in support of Naxal movement. Immediately after the meeting Bagchi along with Charu Majumdar, [[Souren Bose]] and Mahadev Mukherjee were ousted from [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] but he did not join in the newly formed [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)|Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.redspark.nu/en/peoples-war/india/united-kingdombirmingham-indian-workers-association-marks-50th-anniversary-of-naxalbari/|title=United Kingdom, Birmingham: Indian Workers Association Marks 50th Anniversary of Naxalbari|access-date=24 June 2018}}</ref> Police arrested him 28 September 1967 from Murshidabad and sent him Siliguri Special Jail with [[Jangal Santhal]] and Pabitrapani Saha. While in [[Darjeeling]] Jail he took part in a hunger strike for the declaration of status of political prisoner. Police tortured him a lot and again sent him to Dum Dum Central Jail in [[Kolkata]]. He was released finally in 1969 and struggled to reinstate the service. After the retirement Bagchi was involved with Cultural and Democratic movement, Human Rights Association. He died in 2007 at [[Krishnagar]].<ref name=":1" />

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.milansagar.com/kobi_2/dilip_bagchi/kobi-dilipbagchi.html Dilip Bagchi in milansagar.com]

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