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Revision as of 07:52, 15 November 2012 by Arr4 (talk | contribs) (→Background)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) This article is about the politician and activist. For the economist, see Muzaffar Ahmed (economist).Muzaffar Ahmed (Template:Lang-bn) (August 5, 1889 – December 18, 1973) was a noted Bengali politician, journalist and communist activist, popularly known as "Kakababu".
Background
He was born at Musapur village in Sandip Island in Noakhali District of Bengal Province in British India (in the present day Bangladesh). His father's name was Mansur Ali and Mother's name was Chuna Bibi.In 1918 he was appointed joint secretary of "Bangio musalman sahitya Samiti". In 1920, along with Kazi Nazrul Islam he started a new magazine, Navayug. Later, when another magazine, Dhumketu was launched by Nazrul in 1922, he contributed to it using the pseudonym "Dvaipayana".
Kakababu and the communist movement
Ahmed was one of the founders of the Communist Party of India. In 1922, the Bharat Samyatantra Samiti was formed in Calcutta with Kakababu as its secretary. In 1924, he was sentenced to four years in prison because of his role in the Kanpur Bolshevik Conspiracy Case along with S.A. Dange, Nalini Gupta and Shaukat Usmani. He was released due to illness in 1925. In November, 1925 he, along with Qazi Nazrul Islam, Hemanta Kumar Sarkar, and others, organized the Labour Swaraj Party in Bengal.
On March 20, 1929 the British colonial government arrested 31 labour activists and sent them to Meerut for trial. Kakababu, along with S.A. Dange, Shaukat Usmani, P.C. Joshi and others, was convicted in this so-called Meerut Conspiracy Case. He was imprisoned till 1933.
On March 25, 1948, the Communist Party of India was banned by the Government of India and Kakababu was imprisoned. He was released from prison in 1951. He was again arrested and imprisoned for two years in 1962.
Death
He died in Calcutta in 1973, aged 84.
Tribute
The headquarters of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal is named after him. Also, Ripon Street, a thoroughfare in Kolkata, was renamed "Muzaffar Ahmad Street", though the former name is more commonly used.
Major works
- Qazi Nazrul Islam: Smritikatha (in Bengali)
- Amar Jiban O Bharater Communist Party (in Bengali)
References
- Maia Ramnath (2008). 'The Haj to Utopia': Anti-colonial Radicalism in the South Asian Diaspora, 1905--1930. ProQuest. p. 386. ISBN 978-0-549-65494-0. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
- Chandra, Bipan (1989). India's Struggle for Independence, New Delhi: Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-010781-9, p.302
- Chandra, Bipan (1989). India's Struggle for Independence, New Delhi: Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-010781-9, p. 301