340:. At the All Bengal Praja Conference held in Krishnanagar on 6 February 1926, the name of the party was changed to Peasants and Workers Party of Bengal and Sarkar became the joint secretary along with Qutubuddin Ahmad. In 1926, he contested the General Elections to the Indian Legislative Assembly from Presidency Division. Between 1927 and 1929, Sarkar organised three tenants conference in Kushtia. In 1927, the All Bengal Praja Conference was held at Kushtia in Nadia district presided over by Sarkar himself.
281:. At his trial, Sarkar told the judge "As I consider myself to be a free Indian, I deny the jurisdiction of this court set up by the British falsely in the name of law and order. I hope to be released only when the prison gate is opened by the first President of the free Indian Republic." He was imprisoned at the
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Mohandas Gandhi in the Satyagraha movement and was sent to jail for one year for a personal satyagraha on behalf of the fishermen of Nadia. He was released in 1941 on grounds
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was founded in
December 1922, Sarkar became a member of the party. In 1923, Sarkar got elected in the Bengal Legislative Council from Nadia on a Swarajya Party ticket. At 25, he became the youngest member of the council. Later he became the chief whip of Swarajya Party in the council. According to
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In 1934, he contested in the
Central Legislative Council on a Congress ticket and lost. After the defeat, he stayed away from politics for some time. From 1935 to 1940, Sarkar tried his hand at a few roles in the business world, with companies such as the New India Assurance Co., New Asia Life
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Sarkar spent his last years in
Krishnanagar, working with local fishermen to improve their living conditions. He died on 3 November 1952. Even in his last writings, he continued to propose that the news of Bose's death in an air crash was wrong, and that he would return to India soon.
141:, the fifth of six sons to Madan Mohan Sarkar and Kadambari Devi. His father was the owner of a banking business started by his great-grandfather and his mother was the granddaughter of Raghunandan Mitra, the diwan of the Nadia Raj. In his childhood, Sarkar attended the
225:. In the same year, he was also awarded a Government of India Scholarship to study in England for three years. Subhas Chandra Bose, who had already arrived in England a few months back, started making arrangements for Sarkar's admission and lodging at his own college,
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Congress over differences with the leadership and engaged himself in workers movement. Sarkar began to fight for the rights of the peasants and the workers and came to be known as the leader of the proletariat. On 1 November 1925, he along with
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when he was nursed back to health by Bose. Recounting the prison days, Sarkar later wrote that the middle class
Indians, who went to the jails for the first time, overcame the fear of torture in the jails thus strengthening the Indian independence movement.
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November 1926, Sarkar married Sudhira Tagore (1902â1973), one of the first women post-graduates of Bengal. In 1931, Sarkar and his wife built their home at 7 Ballygunge Place in Kolkata. Sarkar had three sons â Manabendra, Dipankar and Manasija.
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spoke at the conference. In July 1927, Sarkar took up the post of Home
Minister to His Highness the Raja of Dewas, Malhar Rao Powar. In 1928, the regional tenants conference was held at the Jatindra Mohan Hall in Kushtia presided over by
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to join the freedom movement, a decision which he rued later. In 1920, Sarkar started his political career as the private secretary of Das. During this time he stayed at the Das family residence. He attended the 1920 Congress session at
109:( 1897 â 3 November 1952) was an Indian philologist, author, biographer, editor, publisher, union leader, leader of the Indian freedom movement and an associate of Subhas Chandra Bose. He was a close friend and the first biographer of
221:, then President of the Graduate Council of the university. He taught Vedic Sanskrit, Modern Bengali Poetry and Philology of the Indian Vernaculars. In 1920, his thesis titled, "The Intellectual Laws of Language" was accepted by the
189:, Baba Ramakrishnadas advised them to give up looking for a guru because they were argumentative and spiritual life was not suitable for them. They returned home after three months. Inspired by the worker's education programmes in
197:, he along with Sailen Ghosh started the Krishnanagar Workmen's Institute, a night school that offered free education to the working-class people. In 1917, Sarkar earned his BA with First Class Honours in Sanskrit from the
269:, Sarkar introduced him to Das. On 7 December 1921, Sarkar was arrested by the British colonial police and sentenced to six months rigorous imprisonment under the Criminal Law Amendment Act for selling
365:. In March 1929, the regional tenants conference was presided over by Sarkar himself where Philip Spratt, Muzaffar Ahmed, Abdul Halim and others spoke. In 1929, Sarkar's Kushtia house and the
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British pressure on the Raja to appoint a pro-British minister. Subsequently, Sarkar returned to Bengal and settled in Kushtia in Nadia from where he used to edit and publish the
318:, the President of the council, Sarkar was one of the most intellectually gifted members. Sarkar's speech during the Budget debate of 1924 was greeted as 'the speech of the season' by
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Sarkar had written books in
Bengali and English on linguistics and the personal experiences of his political career. In 1927, he published the first biographical sketch of
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Insurance Co., but he was not successful. He became the managing director of the New India Steam Navigation Co. and started a passenger and cargo line between Kolkata and
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printing press were raided by the British colonial police, as part of investigations into the Meerut Conspiracy Case. Sarkar was forced to leave Kushtia and he moved to
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where around 10,000 employees struck work for two and half months. Das also entrusted him with the responsibility of editing and managing the weekly nationalist paper
201:. He was awarded the Mohini Mohan Roy Prize for standing first among all the BA and BSc students in his college. After his graduation, Sarkar took admission in the
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and the 1922 Congress session at Gaya as a delegate. In 1921, he was instrumentation in organising strikes at the Raniganj Paper Mills and the
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