Suhasini Chattopadhyay
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Suhasini Chattopadhyay (also known as Suhasini Nambiar; 1902 – 26 November 1973) was an Indian communist leader.
Biography
Chattopadhyay was one of eight children of Aghore Nath Chattopadhyay and Barada Sundari Debi. She was the sister of Indian National Congress President Sarojini Naidu.
In 1920 she married journalist A. C. N. Nambiar in Madras when she was 17. They separated soon due to Nambiar's affair with his secretary, Eva Geissler.{{cite news | url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/141028/nation-current-affairs/article/nehru-aide-nambiar-not-spy-patriot | title=Nehru aide Nambiar not a spy, but a patriot | work=Deccan Chronicle | date=28 October 2014 | access-date=8 March 2015}} After she finished her studies at Oxford both of them moved to Berlin.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
Influenced by her brother Virendranath Chattopadhyay she became a communist. She then attended Eastern University in Moscow. She returned to India with the British communist Lester Hutchinson in 1928.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
In 1938 she married R.M. Jambhekar, a trade union activist and founder of ISCUS.Vappala Balachandran,Life in Shadow,Roli Books They had met in Moscow.{{cite book|author=Anu Kumar|title=Sarojini Naidu: THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTER: WHAT SAROJINI NAIDU DID, WHAT SAROJINI NAIDU SAID|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aGLMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT14|date=5 February 2014|publisher=Hachette India|isbn=978-93-5009-820-2|pages=14}} After American journalist Edgar Snow came to India in 1931 he wrote in his article, "The Revolt of India's Women",{{Citation|last=Huebner|first=Lee W.|chapter=International Herald Tribune|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Journalism|publisher=SAGE Publications, Inc.|isbn=9780761929574|doi=10.4135/9781412972048.n199|year=2009}} that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.
She joined the Communist Party of India in 1929 as its first woman member.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
She died in 1973 in Bombay.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
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Category:Communist Party of India politicians from West Bengal
Category:Female politicians of the Communist Party of India
Category:Articles created or expanded during Women's History Month (India) - 2015