Ambika Chakraborty
Born(1892-01-00)January 1892
Chattogram, Bengal, British India (now Chittagong Division, Bangladesh)
Died6 March 1962(1962-03-06) (aged 70)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
OrganizationJugantar
Political partyCommunist Party of India

Ambika Chakrabarty (January 1892 – 6 March 1962) was an Indian independence movement activist and revolutionary.[1] Later, he was a leader of the Communist Party of India and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.[2]

Revolutionary activities

Ambika Chakrabarty's father's name was Nanda Kumar Chakarabarty. He was a member of Chittagong Jugantar party. He took part in the Chittagong armoury raid led by Surya Sen.[3] On 18 April 1930, he led a group of revolutionaries, who destroyed the entire communication system in Chittagong.[4] On 22 April 1930, he was seriously injured in the gunfight with the British army in Jalalabad. But he was able to escape. After a few months, he was arrested by the police from his hideout and sentenced to death. However, the sentence was later changed to transportation for life to the Cellular Jail in Port Blair.[5]

Later activities

Chakrabarty, after his release from the Cellular Jail in 1946, joined the Communist Party of India. He was elected to the Bengal Provincial Legislative Assembly in the same year. In 1952, he was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Tollygunge (South) constituency as a Communist Party of India candidate. He died in a road accident in Calcutta in 1962.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ GUPTA, SARMISTHA DUTTA (2013). "Death and Desire in Times of Revolution". Economic and Political Weekly. 48 (37): 59–68. ISSN 0012-9976. JSTOR 23528276. Archived from the original on 31 May 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  2. ↑ Assembly, West Bengal (India) Legislature Legislative (1955). Assembly Proceedings: official report (in Bengali). West Bengal Government Press. Archived from the original on 14 July 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  3. ↑ India: An Encyclopaedic Survey. S. Chand. 1984. Archived from the original on 14 July 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  4. ↑ The Contemporary. R.N. Guha Thakurta. 1970. Archived from the original on 14 July 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  5. 1 2 Sengupta, Subodh Chandra (ed.) (1988) Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan (in Bengali), Kolkata: Sahitya Sansad, p.33


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