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1946-1947 Figures

Tebhaga Movement

Full list of figures, martyrs, coordinators, and collectives associated with 1946-1947.

Est. 1947 · BengalA Bilingual Archive

Full Figure List

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Ila Mitra

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Peasant Activist

Her peasant activism in Bengal represented the social unrest and agrarian injustice that framed the years around partition.

Rural Bengal in the 1940s and early 1950s.

She reminds the timeline that partition-era Bengal was also shaped by class struggle and agrarian rebellion.

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Muzaffar Ahmad

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Left Political Thinker

He was a major left intellectual from Bengal whose politics highlighted class questions often overshadowed by communal narratives.

Left politics in Bengal before and after partition.

He helps place partition within a larger history of labor, class, and anti-colonial struggle.

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Somnath Lahiri

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Communist Legislator

He brought a left critique of state power, rights, and constitutional authority into the postcolonial transition.

Constitutional and left politics in Bengal and India.

He represents a strand of Bengali politics that questioned both communalism and authoritarian state formation.

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