Gangadhar Adhikari

Dr. Gangadhar Adhikari (1898 – 1981)[1] was a prominent Marxist theoretician and prolific writer.[2] He was a chemical scientist who earned his Ph.D. degree in Berlin in 1927. He worked with some of the best scientists, attending lectures by Max Planck and Albert Einstein.[3]

Biography

Portrait of 25 of Meerut Prisoners taken outside the jail. Back row (left to right): K. N. Sehgal, S. S. Josh, H. L. Hutchinson, Shaukat Usmani, B. F. Bradley, A. Prasad, P. Spratt, G. Adhikari. Middle Row: R. R. Mitra, Gopen Chakravarti, Kishori Lal Ghosh, L. R. Kadam, D. R. Thengdi, Goura Shanker, S. Bannerjee, K. N. Joglekar, P. C. Joshi, Muzaffar Ahmed. Front Row: M. G. Desai, D. Goswami, R.S. Nimbkar, S.S. Mirajkar, S.A. Dange, S. V. Ghate, Gopal Basak.

Dr. Adhikari was in Germany between 1922 and 1928 and was attracted to Marxism. He joined the German Communist Party. He returned to India in 1928 and joined the Communist Party of India. He was arrested in the Meerut Conspiracy Case. Albert Einstein wrote an open letter to the British Prime Minister MacDonald seeking release of the scientist Adhikari.

Adhikari was a member of the CPI Politburo 1943-1951.[4]

Adhikari's position on the national question, published in 1943 under the name Pakistan and Indian National Unity, was inspired by Joseph Stalin's Marxism and the National Question as it stressed the importance of a nationality to share a common language, a defined territory and a common national consciousness.[4]

He compiled the ten volume Documents of the Communist Party of India.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ http://cpim.org/history/adhikari-gangadhar-1898-%E2%80%93-1981
  2. ↑ http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1812/18120780.htm
  3. ↑ http://bhupinder_singh.tripod.com/adhikari.htm
  4. 1 2 Kamran Asdar Ali (2015). Surkh Salam: Communist Politics and Class Activism in Pakistan, 1947-1972. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-19-940308-0.
  5. ↑ Political Philosophies of Antonio Gramsci and B. R. Ambedkar ...
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