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Communist Consolidation

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Communist Consolidation (26 April 1935 – 15 August 1947) was an Indian independence and communist organization, formed among the prisoners of Andaman Cellular Jail in 26th of april 1935. It was the largest resistance group against British rule in the Cellular Prison. Many legendary Freedom Fighters was the Members of this Organization and this organization was towards to uproot the British rule from INDIA.[1]

Communist Consolidation
MottoTo Independent Motherland India
Founded26th April 1935; 90 years ago (26th April 1935)
FounderHare Krishna Konar
Dissolved15th August 1947
TypeCommunist organization
PurposeRevolution
HeadquartersCellular Jail (upto 1947)
Location
MethodsRebel
Membership
Increase 1 lack (1940)
Ideologies
Nationalism
Communism
Marxism
Socialism
Key people

History

The group was founded by 39 inmates later the group declared allegiance to the Communist Party of India. Its founders belong to the minority tendency of the Marxist part of the Anushilan Samiti. The historic 36-day hunger strike with 187 political prisoners in the Andaman Cellular Jail in July 1937 was led by the Communist Consolidation.[1]

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In 2001, Guardian had an article describing Cellular Jail and Mahavir Singh's death at this dreaded Jail.[2]

Narayan Ray, Niranjan Sengupta and the consolidation's Lahore group smuggled most of the communist and socialist literature inside the prison. The leaders of the group organized study circles, where the principles of Socialism and Communism were studied.

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A social media post in 2017

Hare Krishna Konar, Dhanwantri, Bejoy Kumar Sinha, Batukeshwar Dutt, Bankeshwar, Narayan Roy and Niranjan Sengupta were appointed to the editorial board of a manuscript paper called "The Call", which they published from Cellular Jail. "The Call" began as a monthly paper. The members of the Consolidation Committee contributed articles on various issues related to class struggle. Only one copy of that one and a half hundred handwritten pages was kept in the library.

May Day, November Revolution, etc. were celebrated with due dignity in prison. Nationalist slogans like Bandemataram, Bharat mata ki jai etc. were never used, instead slogans of class struggle like “Inquilab Zindabad”, “Duniya ke Mazdooron ek ho”, etc. Were the first choice of the prisoners.

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Savarkar was 28 when he set foot on Andaman on July 4th 1911. No one else in Cellular Jail submitted to the British like Savarkar did.

Khushi Ram Mehta, a nationalist prisoner, not sympathetic to the revolutionary group, betrayed other prisoners in way proving his loyalty to the monarchy by reporting to the Intelligence Bureau; He reports:

“Finally, the control of the library passed into the hands of the terrorists. This was about the year 1935. The prisoners spent most of their time in reading communist or socialist literature with the result that there was hardly any left who had not been become a confirmed Communist or Socialist.”[3]

Membership

The organization's membership expanded rapidly to more than 500 inmates. By 1940 the membership had grown to over 1 lack.

Some of the members were:

Most of the inmates of the Cellular Jail were members of the Communist Consolidation from Anushilan Samiti comprising Communist revolutionaries of undivided Bengal and Punjab.

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Sitaram Yechury says in Rajya Sabha in 2017.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bandi Jeevan (in Hindi). Sachindra Nath Sanyal. 1 January 2017. ISBN 8184408978.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  2. ↑ "Survivors of our hell". the Guardian. 23 June 2001. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  3. ↑ ahmed, zubair. "Cellular Jail: Stories of Clemency and Betrayal". www.thecitizen.in. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
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