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==History== | ==History== | ||
The group was founded by | 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 [[Marxism|Marxist]] part of the [[Anushilan Samiti]]. The historic 36-day hunger strike with 187 political prisoners in the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands|Andaman]] [[Cellular Jail]] in July 1937 was led by the '''Communist Consolidation'''.<ref name=":0"/> | ||
[[File:Andaman Cellular Jail (1).jpg|thumb|In 2001, Guardian had an article describing Cellular Jail and [[Mahavir Singh (revolutionary)|Mahavir Singh's]] death at this dreaded [[Cellular Jail|Jail]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2001-06-23|title=Survivors of our hell|url=http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2001/jun/23/weekend.adrianlevy|access-date=2022-01-26|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref>]] | |||
Narayan Ray, [[Niranjan Sengupta]] and the consolidation's Lahore group smuggled most of the [[Communism|communist]] and [[Socialism|socialist]] literature inside the [[prison]]. The leaders of the group organized study circles, where the principles of [[Socialism]] and [[Communism]] were studied. | |||
[[File:What a man writes in a post.jpg|thumb|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 conflict|class struggle]]. Only one copy of that one and a half hundred handwritten pages was kept in the library. | |||
[[May Day]], [[October Revolution|November Revolution]], etc. were celebrated with due dignity in prison. [[Nationalism|Nationalist slogans]] like [[Bande Mataram (publication)|Bandemataram]], [[Bharat Mata|Bharat mata ki jai]] etc. were never used, instead slogans of class struggle like “[[Inquilab Zindabad]]”, “[[Workers of the world, unite!|Duniya ke Mazdooron ek ho]]”, etc. Were the first choice of the [[prisoner]]s. | |||
[[File:Andaman Cellular Jail (2).jpg|thumb|[[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar|Savarkar]] was 28 when he set foot on [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands|Andaman]] on July 4th 1911. | |||
No one else in [[Cellular Jail]] submitted to the [[British Empire|British]] like [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar|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:''' | |||
{{blockquote|“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.”<ref>{{Cite web|last=ahmed|first=zubair|title=Cellular Jail: Stories of Clemency and Betrayal|url=https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/newsdetail/index/2/15951/cellular-jail-stories-of-clemency-and-betrayal|access-date=2022-01-13|website=www.thecitizen.in|language=en-US}}</ref>}} | |||
==Membership== | ==Membership== | ||