1. Bhupendranath Datta was an Indian communist revolutionary and later a noted sociologist and anthropologist.
30 Facts About Bhupendranath Datta
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Bhupendranath Datta was younger brother of Swami Vivekananda, and he was associated with Rishi Aurobindo in his political works.
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Bhupendranath Datta was born on 4 September 1880 in the town of Calcutta, the capital of Bengal Presidency, the largest province of British India at that time.
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Bhupendranath Datta had two elder brothers, Narendranath Datta and Mahendranath Datta.
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Vishwanath Bhupendranath Datta was an attorney of Calcutta High Court and Bhuvaneshwari Devi was a housewife.
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Bhupendranath Datta was enrolled in Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's Metropolitan Institution from where he passed entrance examination.
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Bhupendranath Datta decided to join Indian independence movement, and joined Bengal Revolutionary Society formed by Pramathanath Mitra in 1902.
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In 1907, Bhupendranath Datta was arrested by British police with the charge of sedition and was sentenced to one year's imprisonment.
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Bhupendranath Datta joined Ghadar Party of California and there he studied about socialism and communism.
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Bhupendranath Datta remained the secretary of this organisation until 1918.
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Bhupendranath Datta took memberships of German Anthropological Society in 1920 and German Asiatic Society in 1924.
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Bhupendranath Datta obtained a doctorate degree in Anthropology from the University of Hamburg in 1923.
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Bhupendranath Datta chaired two All India Trade Union Congress' annual conference.
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Bhupendranath Datta returned to a much-changed India after 16 long years, in April 1925.
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Bhupendranath Datta fully cooperated with the newly formed Communist Party of India, established in Kanpur, and took part in the Workers' and Peasants'Party.
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Bhupendranath Datta attended the annual conference of WPP in 1927, where he met Nalini Gupta.
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Bhupendranath Datta spread ideas of socialism and Marxism among youth, speaking about Russian revolution.
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Veteran Communist and TU leader Dr Ranen Sen recalled that Dr Bhupendranath Datta used to take political classes among young revolutionaries on Marxism.
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Bhupendranath Datta delivered presidential address at Dacca District Youngmen's Conference in 1927.
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Bhupendranath Datta spoke at the conference of Young Comrades' League at Rajshahi in April 1930.
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Bhupendranath Datta's speech helped many young men to give up anarchism and come over to communism.
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Bhupendranath Datta was active in almost all the major movements: of Kharagpur railways workers, BNR railway workers, TISCO in Jamshedpur, May Day rallies in Calcutta in 1928, etc.
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Bhupendranath Datta attended Jharia session of AITUC and was elected its vice-president.
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Bhupendranath Datta organized a number of trade unions at local and all India levels.
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Bhupendranath Datta Dutta was the first president of Friends of Soviet Union, formed in 1941 at the initiative of Prof Hiren Mukherjee and others.
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Bhupendranath Datta encouraged and recruited members to the party, among them Somnath Lahiri.
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Bhupendranath Datta was a great scholar in various fields, with many books and articles to his credit.
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Bhupendranath Datta brought to light the social and mass aspects of Swami Vivekanand and Ramakrishna Mission, who advocated and worked for the well-being of people.
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Bhupendranath Datta wrote books on different subjects like sociology, history, politics etc.
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Bhupendranath Datta was a linguist and wrote books in Bengali, Hindi, English, German, Iranian.