Sunday, August 19, 2012

Dr.Bhupendranath Datta (contd-2)

Mahendranath,(left) and Bhpendranath (right), two younger brothers of Vivekananda
Apart from a few stray incidents, the armed rebellion against the British rulers was not organized before the beginning of the 20th century. The revolutionary philosophies and movement made its presence felt during the 1905 Partition of Bengal. Arguably, the initial steps to organize the revolutionaries were taken by Aurobindo Ghosh, his brother Barin Ghosh, Bhupendranath Datta, Lal Bal Pal and Subodh Chandra Mullick when they formed the Jugantar party in April 1906. Jugantar was created as an inner circle of the Anushilan Samiti, which was already present in Bengal mainly as a fitness club.
He became the secretary of Jugantar and editor of Jugantar Patrika.

V. I.   Lenin

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To:   BHUPENDRA NATH DATTA


Written: Written on August 26, 1921
Published: First published in 1952 in the book, Bhupendra Nath Datta, Dialectics of Land-Economics of India, Calcutta. Printed from the text of the book.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 270b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Dear Comrade Datta,I have read your thesis. We should not discuss about the social classes. I think we should abide by my thesis on colonial question. Gather statistical facts about, Peasant leagues if they exist in India.Yours...
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)


Notes

 Written by Lenin in reply to the thesis on the national liberation movement in India sent to him by the progressive Indian political leader Bhupendra Nath Datta, who later wrote that Lenin’s letter “came as a revelation to the writer. That the ‘peasant movement’ is of importance for the movement for national freedom has never struck a national-revolutionary. Sentimentalism is the backbone of nationalism. The middle class considers itself to be the representative of the nation and sees every movement in that perspective. Hence, the instruction of Lenin not to discuss the social classes but to get interested in peasant movement set the writer athinking. It changed his Anschauung regarding the means and methods of Indian fight for freedom” (Bhupendranath Datta, Dialectics of Land-Economics of India, Calcutta, p. III).
In his letter to Datta, Lenin mentioned his theses on the national and colonial questions for the Second Congress of the Communist International (see present edition, Vol. 31, pp. 144–51).
Bhupendranath Dutta is the pioneer in spreading the ideals of Marx and Lenin in India, though he was not a member of the Communist Party. He started his carer as a ‘nationalist revolutionery’ Bhupendranath Dutta. He was imprisoned for being the editor of the agazine,’Jugantar’. After his release he secretly went to the USA, and in the beginning of the First World War, an organization, known as ‘Berlin Committee’ came up with the Indian students and youth living in abroad, whose aim was to free India from British rulers. Bhupendranath joined them, and later became the secretary of the organization. On his return to India in 1925 he established a number of organizations for the workers and peasants of the country. Bhupendranath Dutta, brother of Swami Vivekananda, took to writing to spraed his socialistic ideals. His wrote both in Bengali and English languages. He has been published in several magazines in India and abroad

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