SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Charu Majumdar

1918 - 1972

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Charu Majumdar (15 May 1918 – 28 July 1972) was an Indian communist leader, and founder and General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). Born into a progressive landlord family in Siliguri in 1918, he became a Communist during the Indian independence movement, and later formed Naxalism. During this period, he authored the historic accounts of the 1967 Naxalbari uprising. His writings, particularly the Historic Eight Documents, have become part of the ideology of a number of Communism-aligned political parties in India. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charu Majumdar is the 528th most popular social activist (down from 470th in 2019), the 700th most popular biography from India (down from 582nd in 2019) and the 40th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Charu Majumdar ranks 528 out of 840. Before him are Szeto Wah, Vladimir Burtsev, Joseph Weydemeyer, Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Annie Kenney. After him are Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba, Tatyana Baramzina, Shivakumara Swami, Nadia Murad, Abraham Flexner, and Ted Grant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Charu Majumdar ranks 236. Before him are René de Obaldia, Cheddi Jagan, Nils Östensson, Giovanni Cheli, Kumar Pallana, and Jacqueline Susann. After him are Ivo Radovniković, Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, Max de Terra, Reinaldo Gorno, Gunder Hägg, and Shunpei Uto. Among people deceased in 1972, Charu Majumdar ranks 207. Before him are Xie Fuzhi, Julian Steward, Yuri Linnik, Tevfik Rüştü Aras, Américo Castro, and Gia Scala. After him are Ntare V of Burundi, Geraldine Beamish, Pandurang Vaman Kane, Mikhail Artamonov, Per Bertilsson, and Frederico Paredes.

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In India

Among people born in India, Charu Majumdar ranks 700 out of 1,861. Before him are Durgabai Deshmukh (1909), Dara Singh (1928), Percy Hobart (1885), Jimmy Sheirgill (1970), P. V. Sindhu (1995), and Yashpal (1903). After him are Genelia D'Souza (1987), K. Chandrashekar Rao (1954), Kedarnath Singh (1934), Hrithik Roshan (1974), Shivakumara Swami (1907), and Kangana Ranaut (1987).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Charu Majumdar ranks 40. Before him are Rajendra K. Pachauri (1940), Sugathakumari (1934), Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928), Kamala Nehru (1899), Pingali Venkayya (1876), and Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903). After him are Shivakumara Swami (1907), Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886), Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947), Manilal Gandhi (1892), Stan Swamy (1937), and Har Dayal (1884).

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