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'''Jagannath Sarkar''' (25 September 1919 – 8 April 2011) was an [[Culture of India|Indian]] [[Communist]] leader, freedom fighter, and writer on social issues.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jagannath Sarkar |work= Jagannath Sarkar |url= http://www.enotes.com/topic/Jagannath_Sarkar|publisher=frontline|date=15 May 2010|accessdate=5 October 2011}}</ref>

==Early life==

Jagannath Sarkar was born to a Bengali family in [[Puri]], [[Orissa, India]], on 25 September 1919.

His father, Dr [[Akhilnath Sarkar]], was a [[gynaecologist]] at the Prince of Wales Medical College (now the [[Patna Medical College and Hospital]]). The Bengali historian [[Jadunath Sarkar|Sir Jadunath Sarkar]] was his uncle.

The young Sarkar grew up in the atmosphere of [[Bengal]] renaissance, with his family being inspired by [[Ram Mohan Roy]], [[Swami Vivekananda]] and [[Rabindranath Tagore]].

==Early political interests==
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One of the priests of the [[Ramakrishna Mission]] at [[Patna]], which Sarkar frequented in his youth, introduced him to [[Marxism|Marxist literature]], which was then banned in [[British Raj|British India]].

Sarkar went on to study [[economics]] at [[Patna University]], where he associated with the Freedom Movement and the nascent [[Communist party|Communist Party]] in [[Bihar]], and he became an [[Activism|activist]] among students and educated people. After joining the Communist Party, he moved to the working class areas of Bihar and then [[Jharkhand]], were, in the 1940s and 1950s, he engaged in campaigns for [[miner]]s' and [[Coal mining|colliery]] [[Labor rights|workers' rights]].

His father (who had been awarded the honour of [[Rao Bahadur|Rai Bahadur]]) was sympathetic to the cause of his son and his comrades, and he secretively provided resources for their [[revolutionary]] activities until his death.

==Later career==

Sarkar was a leader in the [[Communist Party of India]] in Bihar in the 1950s and 1960s when it came to power in the state, and he railed against supporters of [[military dictatorship]] and [[ideology]]-less rule. Several [[land reform]]s in favour of landless labourers were achieved during this period.

Sarkar also wrote on a number of social issues, including [[secularism]], [[Far-left politics|left-wing extremism]], tribal development, and socialist ideological issues in India, and he was patron and editor of the [[Standard Hindi|Hindi]] daily [[Janashakti]] for a time.

In the 1970s, Sarkar became a member of the [[Secretariat Building, New Delhi|Central Secretariat]] of the [[Communist Party of India]] and moved to [[Delhi]]. But at the age of 65, he decided to cease participation in active politics, wanting the younger generation to play a leadership role in progressive movements.

He was extensively quoted and written about by national and international academics, including [[Bipan Chandra]] and [[Paul Brass]].

Sarkar died on 8 April 2011, in [[Patna]].

==Writing==

Many of Sarkar's writings are not easily traceable, but from what was available, an [[anthology]] was published as a book in 2010.

Entitled ''Many Streams'', it is a collection of selected essays by Sarkar, with some reminiscences from his friends and colleagues. The book was released on 14 May 2010, in Patna by Prof [[Prabhat Patnaik]] of [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Memories Left|work=Memories Left |url= http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-life/article1015297.ece|publisher=frontline|date=15 May 2010|accessdate=5 October 2011}}</ref>

The preface to the book was written by [[Shaibal Gupta]], Member Secretary of the [[Asian Development Research Institute]], Patna.

==References==
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==Further reading==
# Paul R. Brass, Political Parties of the Radical Left in South Asian Politics, in the book Radical Politics in South Asia, MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, P. 329.
# Paul R. Brass, Radical Parties of the Left in Bihar: A Comparison of the SSP and the CPI, Ibid, P. 347. vii
# The Decline of Communist Mass Base in Bihar: Jagannath Sarkar http://kafila.org/2011/09/25/the-decline-of-communist-mass-base-in-bihar-jagannath-sarkar/

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