Amalendu Guha

{{Short description|Indian historian, economist and poet}}

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Amalendu Guha (30 January 1924 – 7 May 2015), was an eminent Marxist historian, poet and a littérateur from India.{{Cite web |last=Chetia |first=Bonojit Hussain and Mayur |title=Amalendu Guha (1924-2015): Lifelong revolutionary, peoples’ historian, life-affirming poet |url=http://scroll.in/article/728582/amalendu-guha-1924-2015-lifelong-revolutionary-peoples-historian-life-affirming-poet |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=Scroll.in |language=en-US}}

He was born in Imphal, Manipur. He completed his MA from Presidency College. He started his teaching career at Darrang College, Tezpur, and also taught at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, and thereafter at Delhi School of Economics.{{cite web |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/epaper/may0815/at05.html |title=The Assam Tribune Epaper |publisher=Assamtribune.com |date=1924-01-30 |accessdate=2015-05-08 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/historian-amalendu-guha-dies-body-donated-to-medical-college/|title=Historian Amalendu Guha dies, body donated to medical college|date=2015-05-08|newspaper=The Indian Express|access-date=2016-11-13}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1150508/jsp/frontpage/story_18887.jsp#.VU0Dx8KJjIU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508095627/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150508/jsp/frontpage/story_18887.jsp#.VU0Dx8KJjIU|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 May 2015|title=Passing of a historian|date=8 May 2015|newspaper=The Telegraph|location=India|first=Pranab|last=Bora|access-date=1 July 2018}}