Pramod Ranjan Sengupta: Difference between revisions

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Sengupta was born in [[British India]] at [[Dumka]], presently in the state of [[Jharkhand]]. His father Harshanath Sengupta was a reputed doctor of Dumka. In 1925 while studying in [[Krishnagar Government College]], at [[Krishnanagar, Nadia]] he came in contact with [[Hemanta Kumar Sarkar]], [[Anantahari Mitra]], Mahadev Sarkar and attracted to the revolutionary politics.<ref name=":0" />

Sengupta was arrested for having connection with [[Dakshineswar]] Bomb Case and remained intern in Shibchar village of [[Faridpur District]]. That time he completed graduation and  after became released in 1927 he went to [[England]] for higher studies. While studying in [[London School of Economics]] he joined in India League and trade union movement of Dock workers. Sengupta went to [[Germany]] in 1928 at the invitation of [[Saumyendranath Tagore]] who introduced him with the members of the [[Berlin Committee]]. While returning to England, French police arrested him having with a revolver.<ref name=":0" /> After the release he met international communist Leaders like [[Rajani Palme Dutt]], [[Shapurji Saklatvala]] and [[Harry Pollitt]]. In 1934-35 he participated into the communist group of studies along with other Indian students in London<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztx1ZCneph4C&q=Pramod+Sengupta&pg=PA111|title=Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Colonialism, and Desire|last=Geeta Patel|year=2002|isbn=9780804733298|access-date=21 October 2017}}</ref> which latter formed anti imperialist Progressive Writers Association.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chinarhyming.com/2015/01/06/remembering-denmark-street-in-1934-the-nanking-restaurant-and-the-indian-progressive-writers-association/|title=Remembering Denmark Street in 1934…the Nanking Restaurant and the Indian Progressive Writers' Association|date=6 January 2015|publisher=China Rhyming|access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref> Sengupta also worked as a reporter of [[Hindustan Standard]] in [[London]]. In 1938 he submitted the thesis paper regarding the 'Aggro related development in India' and got the [[Ph. D]] degree. He went to [[Spain]] to join [[International Brigades]] against the [[Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)|Nationalist forces]]. During [[World War II]] Sengupta joined in [[Indian National Army]] formed by Subhas chandra Bose in [[Berlin]] and he became its Programme Director. He also edited the ''Ajad hind'' magazine for few days. After the war he was arrested in 1945 by the British military Mission and was imprisoned for 10 months. In 1946, Sengupta returned to [[India]], entered in [[Left-wing politics]] and further imprisoned in 1950 in the Presidency jail in [[Kolkata]]. After the release he joined in [[Communist Party of India]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Sansad Bengali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Vol - I|first=Subodh C. Sengupta & Anjali Basu|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=81-85626-65-0|location=Kolkata|pages=311–312}}</ref>

==Other movement==

Sengupta was active in International Peace Movement, [[Progressive Writers' Movement]], ''Bharatiya [[Gananatya]] Sangha'', Democratic Rights and [[Civil Society Movement]] after the commencement of [[The Emergency (India)]]. He was the President of [[All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries]] (AICCCR) at the time of [[Naxalbari uprising]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.anandabazar.com/supplementary/pustokporichoi/%E0%A6%B8-%E0%A6%AE-%E0%A6%A4-%E0%A6%96-%E0%A6%A1-%E0%A6%A4-%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A4-%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%AF-%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%AA-%E0%A6%B0-1.89081|title=স্মৃতি খুঁড়ে তুলে আনা সত্তরের যাদবপুর|website=anandabazar.com|access-date=21 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Satchallish Theke Sottor (Bengali)|last=Bharat Jyoti Roychowdhury|first=Vol - II|publisher=Muktomon|year=2010|isbn=978-81-906750-4-8|location=Kolkata|pages=12, 176}}</ref> Pramod Ranjan Sengupta, popularly known as Pramod Sengupta, was a founder member of Bengal's civil liberty organisation Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR), and elected as its first general secretary in 1972.

Sengupta was a socio political essayist and Marxist intellectual, his lots of article were published in various magazine. He wrote few books namely;

* ''Bhartiya Mahabidrha''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nationallibrary.gov.in/ResultKeyword.php?start=2587&p_f=2587&id=sen&id1=personal|title=Author|website=nationallibrary.gov.in|access-date=21 October 2017}}</ref>

* ''Nilbidroho o Tatkalin Bangali Samaj''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbDfAAAAQBAJ&q=Pramod+Ranjan+Sengupta+books&pg=PA89|title=Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present|last=Sumit Guha|date=13 September 2013|isbn=9789004254855|access-date=21 October 2017}}</ref>

* ''Kalatarer Pathik Roma Roland''  

* ''Naxalbari and Indian Revolution''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8LOICwAAQBAJ&q=Pramod+Sengupta&pg=PT96|title=Social Movements in India: A Review of Literature|last=Ghanshyam Shah|date=5 March 2004|isbn=9788132119777|access-date=21 October 2017}}</ref>