Kanai Chatterjee

Kanai Chatterjee popularly known as K.C. (1933 — 18 July 1983) was a Bengali Maoist ideologue, founder of the Maoist Communist Centre of India.^[1]

Early life

Chatterjee was born in 1933 at Baruikhali village, Barishal British India. He participated anti British movement in student life. He completed B.Com and joined student movements led by the undivided Communist Party of India.

Political activities

In 1953 he started work in Tiljala area of Kolkota and became popular amongst the local people. Chatterjee became the secretary of the Ballygunj Local Committee of the Communist Party in 1959. He also took active part in the food movement and seriously injured by police firing. In 1962, he was arrested at the time of Indo China War.^{[citation needed]} Chatterjee launched a magazine Dakhshin Desh with another activist Amulya Sen to fight against revisionism.^[2] In 1967, the Naxalbari uprising took place under the leadership of Charu Mazumdar but, due to differences on ideology, Chatterjee's group Dakhshin Desh could not join the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist).^[3] On 20 October 1969 he created Maoist Communist Centre with Amulya Sen and Chandrashekar Das.^[4][5][6] He died at the age of 49, in 1982, due to illness while staying underground.^[7]

References

1. Kurmanath, K. W. (16 October 2004). "PW, MCC put 'Black Chapter' behind". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
2. V R Raghavan (18 May 2011). The Naxal Threat: Causes, State Response and Consequences. ISBN 9789381411940. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
3. Arun Srivastava (January 2015). Maoism in India. ISBN 9789351865131. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
4. Bidyut Chakrabarty, Rajat Kumar Kujur (4 December 2009). Maoism in India: Reincarnation of Ultra-Left Wing Extremism. ISBN 9781135236489. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
5. Bidyut Chakrabarty, Rajat Kumar Kujur (4 December 2009). Maoism in India: Reincarnation of Ultra-Left Wing Extremism. ISBN 9781135236489. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
6. "The who's who of Left-wing extremism". The Economic Times. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
7. "The Communist Party of India (Maoist) — Born in India". Retrieved 25 September 2018.