822. Sukumar Ghosh (1911-1984), 823. Sukumar Bandyopadhyay (1913-1938), 824. Sukhendu Bikash Datta

Sukumar Ghosh was an unique revolutionary. He was a member of Bengal Volunteers founded by Hem Chandra.He had a role in planning of assassination of Governor of Bengal Sir John Anderson in 1934.. He was jailed for 14 years being involved in the attempt of assassination of Anderson in the race maidan of Labong of Darjeeling. He was kept in Andaman Cellular jail. He committed 45 days fast, historically noted, on the demand of release of all the prisoners, to bring them to India, and to show proper respect to them. He was among those prisoners who were brought to India. He was kept in Alipore Central Jail.He again participated in hunger strike for 35 days in 1938. He was released in 1946 along with other prisoners. Fater release he joined in Sicialist Party formed by Rammonohar Lohia.  



Sukumar Bandyopadhyay was born in Burdwan. He joined in Civil Disobedience movement during student life. He took active role in the movement of opposing Damodar Canal Tax Collection. Later he joined Communist Party and was connected with trade union movement. He was the founder of Ranigunj Paper Mills Workers Union and main organiser. In the 2nd day of strike while picketing , he died by run over of police track.



Sukhendu Bikash Datta was born in Chittagong. He suffered a long prison life for Deoghar Conspiracy Case. Later he was jailed in Chittagong jail without trial.He participated in saving Suryz Sen. Being out of this Conspiracy he was jailed in Berhampore. After release he joined openly in politics.  

821. Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926-1947)

Biography of Sukanta Bhattacharya

Sukanta Bhattacharya (Bengali: সুকান্ত ভট্টাচার্য) was a Bengali poet and playwright. Along with Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam, he was one of the key figures of modern Bengali poetry, despite the fact that most of his works had been in publication posthumously. During his life, his poems were not widely circulated, but after his death his reputation grew to the extent that he became one of the most popular Bengali poet of the 20th century. He has had a significant influence on poet Subhas Mukhopadhyay and composer Salil Chowdhury who set some of his popular poems to music.

The poetry of Sukanta Bhattacharya is characterized by rebel socialist thoughts, patriotism, humanism and yet romanticism.

Life

Sukanta Bhattacharya was born to Nibaran Chandra Bhattacharya, owner of Saraswat Library, a publishing and book selling enterprise, and Suniti Devi. He was the second of their six sons, Sushil, Prashanta, Bibhash, Ashoke and Amiya being the other five sons. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, the former Chief Minister of West Bengal is his nephew. Sukanta was born at his maternal grandfather’s house at Kalighat, Calcutta (now Kolkata, West Bengal), although his family hailed from the village of Kotalipara in Gopalganj of modern day Bangladesh.

Sukanta spent his childhood at their house at Nibedita Lane, Bagbazar. He was sent to Kamala Vidyamandir, a local primary school where his literary career began. His first short story was published in Sanchay, the school’s student magazine. Later another of his prose writing, "Vivekanander Jibani", was published in Sikha, edited by Bijon Bhattacharya.

After studying at Kamala Vidyamandir, he got admitted to Beleghata Deshbandhu High School. He joined the Communist Party of India in 1944. In the same year, he edited an anthology, named Akal (Famine) published by the Anti-Fascist Writers' and Artists' Association. In 1945, he appeared in the entrance examination from Beleghata Deshbandhu High School but failed. He was the editor of the Kishore Sabha (youth section) of the Bengali daily organ of the party, Dainik Swadhinata from its inception in 1946. He died of tuberculosis at the Jadavpur T. B. Hospital (later, K. S. Roy T. B. Hospital) in Calcutta at a very young age of 20. A comprehensive account of the poet's life can be found in Kabi Sukanta Bhattacharya O Sei Samay written by the poet's youngest brother, Amiya Bhattacharyya.

Works 

Prodigious Sukanta's poetry was published in magazines while he was alive, and except for Chharpatra his books were all published posthumously.

His works are deeply marked and influenced by his communist experience. One of his shorter poems name "Hey Mahajibon" (হে মহাজীবন) from the book Chharpatra (ছাড়পত্র) compares the moon with a burnt roti, a prosaicness born of hunger:
"ক্ষুধার রাজ্যে পৃথিবী গদ্যময় পূর্ণিমার চাঁদ যেন ঝলসানো রুটি"
"Poetry, we do not need you anymore. A world devastated by hunger is too prosaic, The full moon now reminds us of toasted bread"

Sukanta Samagra (সুকান্ত সমগ্র) (Complete Works of Sukanta) (1967), published by the Saraswat Library, Kolkata was edited by Subhash Mukhopadhyay. This includes all the printed texts, some lesser known writings, his plays and stories, which include Khudha (Hunger), Durboddho (Incomprehensible), Bhadralok (Gentleman) and Daradi Kishorer Svapna (Dream of a Compassionate Adolescent), an article, Chhanda O Abritti and also a selection of lettrs.

Sukanta Bhattacharya's Works:

Chharpatra (ছাড়পত্র) (Certificate, 1947), Ghum Nei (ঘুম নেই) (Sleepless, 1954), Purbabhas (পূর্বাভাস) (Premonition, 1950), Abhijan (অভিযান) (Expedition, 1953, a play), Mithe-Kadha (মিঠে-কড়া) (Sweet and sour 1951), Giti Guccha (গীতিগুচ্ছ) (Songs1965), Sukanta Samagra (সুকান্ত সমগ্র) (Complete Works of Sukanta) (1967), Patra Guchha (পত্র গুচ্ছ) (Letters).

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818. Sidhu Makjhi 819. Sindhubala Devi (1895-1929) , 820. Sindhubala Maity (1920-1942)

Sidhu Majhi was born in Bhagnadihi, Santal Pargana. He was the greatest leader of Santal Rebellion. Due to treacherous activities of some person he was arrested and shoot to death.



Sindhubala Devi (1895-1929) was born in Indus,Bankura. She was pioneer of he female revolutionaries. During Indo-German conspiracy she and her husband gave shelter to fugitive revolutionaries in her Railway quarter and for this an warrant was issued in her name. She was then preganant and stayed in Indus village. The Police made her walking in the street on that condition to bring her to Bankura Jail and kept her confined. She was released in 1928 due to a movement launched for this reason.



Sindhubala Maity was born in Midnapore and joined in Quit India movement. She died out of torture for extreme torture inflicted on her.

816. Sabitri Devi, 817. Sabitriprasanna Chattopadhyay (1898-1965),

Sabitri Devi was born in Chittagong. She and her only son Ramkrishna Chakrabarty gave shelter to Surya Sen in a place named Dhalghat. The most faithful followers, Nirmal Sen, Apurba Sen, Pritilata Waddedar, of Surya Kanta Sen, was on underground at that time. The military surrounded the house on 12 th June 1932. A fierce fighting started. Nirmal Sen and Apurba Sen died by police bullets and Capt. Cameroon died by bullets of the revolutionaries. She and her son was jailed for 4 years due to giving shelter to the revolutionaries. They were given 3rd class status. They were inhumanly treated in Midnapore Central Jail. The TB patient Ramkrishna was chained with iron chain. The mother Sabitri Devi was not given permission of visiting her son by the authorities. At last the mother was brought to see her dead son. She was not scared even after being released.



Sabitri Prasanna Chatopadhyay was born in Nadia. He was known as patriotic poet. He joined Non Cooperation movement while studying in M.A.He was jailed several times for political reason.His  important works are Ahitagni, Atasi, Raktalekha etc.

815. Sapurji Saklatvala (1874-1936)

Shapurji Dorabji Saklatvala (1874–1936) was a British politician of Indian Parsi heritage. In 1922 Saklatvala became the third ethnic Indian elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, following Dadabhai Naoroji and Mancherjee Bhownagree. He also was among the few members of the Communist Party of Great Britain to serve as a Member of Parliament.

Early years

Shapurji Saklatvala was born 28 March 1874 in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, the son of a merchant, Dorabji Saklatvala, and his wife Jerbai, a sister of Jamsetji (aka J.N.) Tata, the owner of India's largest commercial and industrial empire. He was educated at St. Xavier's School in Bombay before moving to St. Xavier's College for his collegiate education.

He worked briefly as an iron and coal prospector for Jamsetji Tata successfully unearthing iron ore and coal deposits in the states of Bihar and Orissa. His health suffered with malaria which led to his moving to England in 1905 to convalesce and run Tata'sManchester office. He later joined Lincoln's Inn, although he left before qualifying as a barrister.

Political career

Saklatvala was a committed socialist and first joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in Manchester in 1909.

The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia of November 1917 was an inspiration to Saklatvala and following the establishment of the Communist International in 1919 he became active in attempting to affiliate the ILP with that new organization. Saklatvala joined with Emile Burns, R. Palme Dutt, J. Walton Newbold, Helen Crawfurd, and others as part of an organized faction called the Left Wing Group of the ILP which was dedicated to this effort. When the affiliation drive by Saklatvala and the ILP's left wing ended in failure in the party's March 1921 national conference, Saklatvala left the organization with the others in the Left Wing Group to join the new Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).

He attended the 2nd Pan-African Congress held in Paris in 1921 as a delegate of the CPGB.

In the October 1922 general election the Communist Party of Great Britain launched its first electoral campaign, putting forward candidates in six constituencies. Saklatvala ran in the Battersea North district of London, one of two Communists to receive the official endorsement of the Labour Party — which was in effect an umbrella organization which included affiliated political parties like the ILP as well as representatives of various trade unions. Saklatvala won election in North Battersea, receiving 11,311 votes — topping his nearest rival by more than 2,000 votes. Also elected running as a Communist, without official Labour Party support, was J. Walton Newbold, capturing a plurality of the vote inMotherwell.

Saklatvala was accepted into the Labour Party's parliamentary caucus but while Newbold applied for the same he was rejected. This did not stop Saklatvala and Newbold from joint activity, however, and the pair attempted to raise the demands of the unemployed and the cause of cheap housing and lower rents whenever possible. Newbold wound up being suspended from the House in May 1923 over his actions with respect to the Curzon ultimatum during the French occupation of the Ruhr.

The November 1923 general election saw the CPGB putting forward 9 of its members as candidates, including Shapurji Saklatvala in Battersea North, where he was unanimously adopted as the nominee of the Battersea Labour Party. Although not all the Communist candidates were endorsed by the Labour Party, they all were the recipients of support from local Labour activists. Despite modest gains for Labour in the election overall, the results of the election returned the Conservatives as the largest party in the House of Commons (although their number of seats fell from 346 to 259). All Communist candidates were defeated in the 1923 election, however, including Saklatvala in Battersea North.

The 1924 general election came in the wake of the so-called Zinoviev letter and saw the Conservatives increase their vote by more than 2 million to win the election. The Labour Party saw a net loss of 42 seats despite contesting more constituencies than ever before. In Battersea North, Saklatvala ran without formal Labour Party endorsement for the first time, but still managed to win election by a slim margin of 544 votes, the only one of 8 CPGB candidates elected.

Saklatvala was arrested during the 1926 General Strike following a speech he made in support of striking coal miners and was jailed for two months on charge of sedition.

He was active in the League Against Imperialism from the time of its formation in 1927.

Sklatvala's parliamentary career was effectively ended when he lost his seat in the 1929 general election. He ran again in 1930 in a by-election in Glasgow Shettleston without success, and mounted a final losing campaign in the 1931 general election in Battersea.

In 1934 he visited the Soviet Union to tour the Union's Far Eastern republics, whose governance he compared favourably to that in British India. During that tour he suffered a heart attack but recovered.

During the 1935 general election Saklatvala was active in the electoral campaigns of Harry Pollitt and Willie Gallacher.

Personal life

Saklatvala married, on 14 August 1907, an English woman, Sarah Elizabeth Marsh (born 1888), whom he met when she was working as a hotel waitress while staying at Matlock, Derbyshire. The couple had three sons and two daughters. He was once censured by the non-religious CPGB for holding Parsi initiation ceremonies for some of his children atCaxton Hall, Westminster, which he defended on the grounds it was to ensure benefit from a family trust fund.^[17]

His son Kaikhoshro Shapurji Saklatvala served with the British Air Transport Auxiliary organisation in World War II as a pilot (Second Officer). ^[18] He flew most frontline aircraft types including Mosquitos, Spitfires and Lancasters.

Death and legacy

Shapurji Saklatvala died, from another heart attack, on 16 January 1936 at his London home, 2 St Albans Villas, Highgate Road. He was 61 years old at the time of his death and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. His remains were later buried on 21 January at the Parsi burial ground in Brookwood Cemetery, Woking.

In January 1937, British, Irish and Dominion volunteers in the International Brigades were formed into an English-speaking battalion, that was formally named after Saklatvala. However the name never caught on and it was normally known as the "British Battalion".

Communist Party of Great Britain(Marxist-Leninist)'s hall is named after Shapurji Saklatvala. Saklatvala Hall is located in Southall, London. The hall is used for CPGB-ML's meetings and celebrations.

813. Satkari Bandyopadhyay (1889-1937), 814. Santwana Guha (1910-1934)

Satkari Bandyopadhyay was born in Behala, 24-Parganas. He joined in Biplabi Organisation in an early age. The names of Manabendranath Roy  with him and other four persons were struck off from the roles of the school for participating in a rally to welcome Surendranath Banerjee. He came closely in contact with leaders of revolutionary activities in going to organise Yugantar. The Japanese ship
" Komagatamaru" came  to Budge Budge from America helped the revolutionaries in 1914. He took the responsibility of foreign affairs of Yugantar Dal in 1915 and he was arrested on 4.3.16. When he was in Naini jail he hent 67 days hunger strike in protest against ill behavior of the securities of the jail to the political prisoners. After release on 13.1.1920 he devoted himself in organisational work. He was again jailed from 1924-27.He gave a plan for assassination of police commissioner Tegart to his comrades.Hehad to remain intern in his own house after being arrested for third time.He was transferred to Deuli Jail in 1932 and died after piles.



 Santwana Guha was born in Dbrugarh, Assam. He took his lesson in Santiniketan. He was a litterateur. His Agnimantre Nari and other books were banned by British Govt He was arrested in April 1931. While he was prisner on Hijli jail in 1932 he committed hunger strike for 21 days for murder within the Jail.. As a result he was shifted to Rajsahi Jail where he died for inhuman torture.