Ambika Chakrabarty
{{Short description|Indian independence movement activist and revolutionary (1892–1962)}}
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| name = Ambika Chakraborty
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| nationality = Indian
| party = Communist Party of India
| birth_date = {{birth date|1892|01||df=y}}
| birth_place = Chittagong, Bengal, British India
| death_date = {{death date and age|1962|03|06|1892|01|df=y}}
| death_place = Calcutta, West Bengal, India
| organization =Jugantar
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Ambika Chakrabarty (January 1892 – 6 March 1962) was an Indian independence movement activist and revolutionary.{{Cite journal|last=Gupta|first=Sarmistha Dutta|date=2013|title=Death and Desire in Times of Revolution|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23528276|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=48|issue=37|pages=59–68|jstor=23528276|issn=0012-9976|access-date=14 July 2023|archive-date=31 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531075441/https://www.jstor.org/stable/23528276|url-status=live}} Later, he was a leader of the Communist Party of India and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.{{Cite book|last=Assembly|first=West Bengal (India) Legislature Legislative|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JzZYAAAAMAAJ&q=Ambika+Chakrabarty+Communist+Party|title=Assembly Proceedings: official report|date=1955|publisher=West Bengal Government Press|language=bn|access-date=14 July 2023|archive-date=14 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714075432/https://books.google.com/books?id=JzZYAAAAMAAJ&q=Ambika+Chakrabarty+Communist+Party|url-status=live}}
Revolutionary activities
Ambika Chakrabarty's father's name was Nanda Kumar Chakarabarty. He was a member of Chittagong Jugantar party.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} He took part in the Chittagong armoury raid led by Surya Sen. On 18 April 1930, he led a group of revolutionaries, who destroyed the entire communication system in Chittagong.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ya8eAAAAMAAJ&q=Ambika+Chakrabarty+Surya+Sen|title=The Contemporary|date=1970|publisher=R.N. Guha Thakurta|language=en|access-date=14 July 2023|archive-date=14 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714075434/https://books.google.com/books?id=ya8eAAAAMAAJ&q=Ambika+Chakrabarty+Surya+Sen|url-status=live}} On 22 April 1930, he was seriously injured in the gunfight with the British army in Jalalabad. But he was able to escape. After a few months, he was arrested by the police from his hideout and sentenced to death. However, the sentence was later changed to transportation for life to the Cellular Jail in Port Blair.Sengupta, Subodh Chandra (ed.) (1988) Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan (in Bengali), Kolkata: Sahitya Sansad, p.33
Later activities
Chakrabarty, after his release from the Cellular Jail in 1946, joined the Communist Party of India. He was elected to the Bengal Provincial Legislative Assembly in the same year. In 1952, he was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Tollygunge (South) constituency as a Communist Party of India candidate. He died in a road accident in Calcutta in 1962.
See also
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Category:Indian prisoners sentenced to death
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