Pramod Ranjan Sengupta: Difference between revisions

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Sengupta was arrested for his connection with [[Dakshineswar]] Bomb Case and was interned in Shibchar village of [[Faridpur District]], presently in Bangladesh. During this period he completed graduation. After his release in 1927, he went to [[England]] for higher studies. While studying in [[London School of Economics]], he joined India League and the London Dock workers' trade union. Sengupta went to [[Germany]] in 1928 at the invitation of [[Saumyendranath Tagore]] who introduced him to the members of the [[Berlin Committee]]. While returning to England, French police arrested him with a revolver.<ref name=":0" /> After release, he met international communist Leaders like [[Rajani Palme Dutt]], [[Shapurji Saklatvala]] and [[Harry Pollitt]]. In 1934-35 he participated in 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 2022}}</ref> which latter formed the antiimperialist 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 2022}}</ref> Sengupta also worked as a reporter for [[Hindustan Standard]] in [[London]]. In 1938 he submitted the thesis paper regarding the 'Agro related development in India' and got the [[Ph. D|Ph.D]] degree. He went to [[Spain]] to join the [[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 Program Director. He also edited the ''Ajad hind'' magazine for a short while. 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]], joined [[Left-wing politics]] and was again imprisoned in 1950 in the Presidency jail in [[Kolkata]]. After 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>

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 2022}}</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 organization Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR), and elected as its first general secretary in 1972.

* ''Bhartiya Mahabidroha''<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 2022}}</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 2022}}</ref>

* ''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 2022}}</ref>