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Published: 01:06 AM, 05 August 2018
Shibdas Ghosh
Shibdas Ghosh was an Indian communist politician. He was invol-ved in the Communist movement in India for several decades.
He was also the founding general secretary of Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist). At the age of 13 he joined the Anushilan Samity to participate in the independence movement of India. He was attracted to Manabendranath Roy's ideologies at a very early age.
In 1942 he joined the Quit India movement. He was later arrested and incarcerated for three years. There he thoroughly studied Marxism-Leninism. Later along with some colleagues such as Nihar Mukherjee he organised SUCI(C) in 1948. He died on his 53rd birthday 5 August in 1976.
