Charu Majumdar

Charu Majumdar ( Charu Mazumdar also transcribed; Bengali: চারু মজুমদার, CARU Majumadār; * 1918 in Siliguri, West Bengal, † July 28, 1972 in Alipur ) was a Communist revolutionary in India.

Life

Majumdar grew up in a politically liberal landowner family. He left in 1938 without a degree college. Temporarily he was a member of the Congress Party. In 1946 he joined the Tebhaga movement. He was jailed in 1948 for three years and in 1962 and 1965 for a short time.

Mid 1960s Majumdar and Kanu Sanyal organized a left faction within the Communist Party of India ( Marxist) (CPI (M)) in the northern Bengal. 1967 there was a violent peasant uprising in the village of Naxalbari, led by the Majumdar - Sanyal group. This group was later named after the place of her first public appearance Naxalites. Eight of Charu Majumdar written at this time products - known as the Historic Eight Documents - regarded as the ideological founding document of the Naxalites: The revolution must take the path of armed struggle following the example of the Chinese Revolution and Mao. In the same year Majumdar and Sanyal left the Communist Party and founded the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries, out of which 1969, the Communist Party of India ( Marxist-Leninist ) was founded, with Majumdar as Secretary General.

In a hiding Majumdar was captured on 16 July 1972 he died in police custody in Alipore Central Jail on July 28, 1972.