Saumyendranath Tagore
British India | |
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Died | 22 September 1974 | (aged 72)
Political party | Workers and Peasants Party, Communist Party of India, Communist Party of Germany, Revolutionary Communist Party of India, Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Tagore) |
Spouse | Srimati Hutheesing |
Alma mater | Presidency College Calcutta |
Occupation | Politician, Marxist theorist |
Website | www |
Saumyendranath Tagore (October 8, 1901 – September 22, 1974),[1] son of Sudhindranath Tagore, grandson of Dwijendranath Tagore, and grand-nephew of Rabindranath Tagore, was the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party of India,[2][3] and the first translator of The Communist Manifesto into Bengali, which was published in Langal magazine edited by Kazi Nazrul Islam.
Education
Tagore passed matriculation in 1917 from Mitra Institution in Kolkata and became graduate with Hon's in Economics from the Presidency College in the year of 1921.
Communist movement
In 1920, Tagore joined the "
Differences with the Comintern
Tagore differed with the Comintern on the "Colonial Question".[4] Later, he came to favor Leon Trotsky's theory of "Permanent Revolution" over Joseph Stalin's notion of "Socialism in One Country".[5][6] He also came to oppose the Comintern's "Popular Front" strategy in the 1930s, regarding it as a betrayal of proletarian revolution.[5]
At the 1928 Communist International congress Tagore had sought to challenge the role of
The Communist League
Tagore formed the
The Communist League and the peasantry
After the formation of the Communist League Tagore began touring the Bengal country-side, organizing peasants to struggle for abolishing the zamindari system.[citation needed] In early 1938 Tagore built a peasants wing, the ‘Bangiyo Pradeshik Kisan Sabha’ (BPKS), separate from the CPI-led Krishak Samiti.[citation needed] Tagore's BPKS demanded abolition of the zamindari system without giving any compensation to landlords, free distribution of land among the cultivators and agricultural labourers, minimization of revenue demands and cancellation of debts to moneylenders.[citation needed]
Tagore in Assam
In 1941 the Communist League had been renamed the "Communist Party of India", but in March 1943 it was rechristened the Revolutionary Communist Party of India (RCPI) in order to differentiate it from the "official" Communist Party of India.
The RCPI was the first left organization to established itself in Assam.[12] In November 1938 Tagore visited Assam and met with a group of students and youth.[13][14] His visit was organized by the Congressman Debranath Sarma.[14] A Communist League branch was formed in the province in 1939.[14]
Tagore made a second visit to Assam in December 1941.
Split in the RCPI
After his return to India, Tagore had been arrested a number of times by the British colonial administration and was in and out of prison for most of a decade.[16] After being released from prison in 1948,[10] Tagore was confronted with a sector within the RCPI, led by Pannalal Dasgupta, which insisted on turning the campaign of building panchayats into a general armed insurrection.[10][17] Tagore argued, instead, that armed revolution was premature in India.[10]
The Dasgupta faction assembled an All India Party Conference in
Literary works
Saumyendranath Tagore was a regular writer of Kallol group. He wrote articles in French, Russian, German, English and Bengali languages. The books Biplabi Russia, Trayee, Jatri, Rabindranather Gaan, 'Communism and Fetishism', 'Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and India', 'Permanent Revolution', 'Tactics and strategy of revolution' 'Gandhi'(French) are few of them.
Tagore's revolutionary activities led the British authorities to ban a number of his works.[16][19]
Family
Saumyendranath Tagore married Srimati Hutheesingh from an aristocratic Jain Gujarati
External links to his works
- Saumyendranath Tagore Archive at Marxists Internet Archive
- Saumyendranath Tagore Archive in the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party of India
References
- ^ Bhattacharya, Satya Brata (April 2016). "Saumyendranath Tagore and the Peasant Movement of Murshidabad: A Study on Historical Perspectives".
- ^ Dwijendranath Tagore#Descendants
- ^ "Tagore, Soumyendranath - Banglapedia". en.banglapedia.org. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ^ ISBN 9781405198073. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ a b Revolutionary Communist Party of India (22 September 2018). "On the 44th death anniversary of Comrade S.N. Tagore". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ Tagore, Saumyendranath. "Permanent Revolution". Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ ISBN 9780883864678.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-230-28804-1.
- ^ a b Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas. Origenes y formacion del trotskismo en India y Ceilan
- ^ ISBN 9780070965911.
- ^ Society and Change. Mihir Purkayastha for the ASSSC. April 1995.
- ^ Party Life. Vol. 21. Communist Party of India. 1985. p. 22.
- ISBN 978-81-7835-742-3.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-317-32560-4.
- ^ a b c [1]
- ^ hdl:10603/234270. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ a b c Alexander, Robert J. Trotskyism in India
- ^ Cahiers Leon Trotsky, February 1998
- ^ "Saumyendranath Tagore Archive". Retrieved 19 April 2020.