AMULYA SEN
(1908 - 1981)
Amulya Sen (1908 – 23 March 1981), was an Indian communist leader, and a founder of the Maoist Communist Centre.
Amulya Sen was born in 1908 in Soranong village, Bikrmapur, in the Dhaka district of Bengal. He joined the anticolonial movement while at Dhaka University, from which he graduated with honors. He was imprisoned several times due to his involvement in the Anushilan Samiti movement.
While in prison in the 1940s, Sen took up Marxism-Leninism, and joined the Communist Party of India (CPI) upon his release. When the CPI split at its 7th Congress in 1964, Sen followed the "pro-Peking" faction which gave birth to the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
The debate over the nature of the Indian revolution continued within the CPI(M), however, and Sen contributed to it by secretly distributing a handwritten circular titled Chinta among party militants. From 1965 to 1966 Chinta was turned into an underground print bulletin upholding the need for armed struggle and agrarian revolution. Later in 1966, together with Chandrasekhar Das and Kanai Chatterjee, Sen published the open fortnightly magazine Dakshindesh.
In October 1969, the Chinta and Dakshindesh groups, led by Sen, Das, and Chatterjee, formed a new party, the Maoist Communist Centre.
Throughout his political career, Sen was instrumental in various struggles and organizations in West Bengal, Assam, Tripura, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
Amulya Sen died on 23 March 1981.
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