1. Dr Gangadhar Adhikari was a prominent Marxist theoretician and prolific writer.
58 Facts About Gangadhar Adhikari
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Gangadhar Adhikari was the former general secretary of the Communist Party of India, one of the oldest political parties in India.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was a chemical scientist who earned his Ph.
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Gangadhar Moreshwar Adhikari was born on 8 December 1898 in Panvel, Colaba district, near Mumbai in a Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu family.
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Gangadhar Adhikari's grandfather was a small landlord in Ratnagiri, but losing property, became a clerk in district collector's office.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was 8th in the whole Presidency, getting a scholarship.
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Gangadhar Adhikari attended his first political meeting in 1918, addressed by Tilak.
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Gangadhar Adhikari listened to speeches at Marathi Literary Society established by S A Dange and others in the College.
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Gangadhar Adhikari passed his Intermediate science exams in 1918 topping in the entire state.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was awarded scholarship at every stage of education.
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Gangadhar Adhikari joined IISc, Bangalore as a research scholar.
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Gangadhar Adhikari wrote MSc dissertation on extraction of salts from barium sulphate, passing MSc without having to appear for viva.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was one of those rare students who was awarded Master's degree in absentia.
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Gangadhar Adhikari joined Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg to study physical chemistry.
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Gangadhar Adhikari met many world famous scientists and collaborated with scientists like Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner.
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Gangadhar Adhikari even worked as chemist in a factory in 1927.
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Gangadhar Adhikari attended political lectures of Max Beer and others at India House, read John Reed, RPD, etc.
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Gangadhar Adhikari delivered his first speech in German on Jallianwalan Bagh anniversary.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was deeply moved by the film Battleship Potemkin.
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Gangadhar Adhikari met Jaisurya Naidu, Suhasini Chattopadhyaya, Sarojini Naidu and others.
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Gangadhar Adhikari wrote for Kranti and translated Engels's Questions and Answers on Communism directly from German into Marathi.
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Gangadhar Adhikari met Lester Hutchinson, later his comrade in Meerut Conspiracy Case.
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Gangadhar Adhikari regularly attended mass meetings of Ernst Thaelmann, general secretary of CPG, who became famous after contesting presidential elections, receiving 12.6 percent of votes.
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Gangadhar Adhikari went to his factory every day with a copy of party paper Rote Fahne and discussed with workers.
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Gangadhar Adhikari approached Virendranath to help him go to Soviet Union.
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Gangadhar Adhikari returned to Bombay in December 1928, secretly carrying Theses of 6th Comintern congress on colonial question.
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Gangadhar Adhikari got to know prominent CPI leaders more closely.
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Gangadhar Adhikari got a paltry sum of Rs 25 pm from his father towards expenses.
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Dr Gangadhar Adhikari was arrested on 20 March 1929 along with 31 others and lodged in Meerut Jail in most inhuman conditions.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was made secretary of the Jail Group and drafted many documents.
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Gangadhar Adhikari played a key role in party's unification at the time.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was very active in the widespread strike movement those days.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was arrested in May 1934, sent to Byculla Jail and then Bijapur Jail.
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Back in Bombay, Gangadhar Adhikari became one of the architects of party organ 'National Front'.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was elected to Bombay Provincial Congress Committee in 1939, defeating Shantabai Vengarkar.
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Gangadhar Adhikari became Politburo member of CPI along with P C Joshi, Bhardwaj, and Ajoy Ghosh.
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Gangadhar Adhikari went underground when Second World War broke out.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was elected to CC and PB at the First Congress of CPI held in 1943 in Bombay.
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In June 1943 Gangadhar Adhikari became editor of People's War and then of People's Age.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was married to Vimal Samarth in 1943 in a simple wedding in the Commune, where they lived too.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was sent to Lahore in 1943 to sort out organizational problems.
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Gangadhar Adhikari attended a conference of CPs of British colonies in London in February-March 1947, representing CPI.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was elected to the CC and PB at 2nd congress of CPI in Calcutta in February 1948.
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Gangadhar Adhikari supported BTR line, and as such was responsible for it.
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Gangadhar Adhikari then went to Punjab to work as an ordinary member in 1951.
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Gangadhar Adhikari worked as an ordinary member in Parliamentary Office in Delhi and later in Bombay.
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Dr Gangadhar Adhikari was elected to CC in Madurai and Palghat congresses.
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Gangadhar Adhikari delivered Report on new Party Constitution at Amritsar congress.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was elected to NC and CEC and then again at Vijaywada.
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Gangadhar Adhikari wrote extensively during ideological-political discussions in 1960s, including an important work Communist Party and India's Path to National Regeneration in 1964.
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Gangadhar Adhikari played important role in formulating new program and delivered the Report on Party Program at Bombay congress.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was elected to Central Secretariat with specific responsibility of Party Education.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was entrusted with collecting, editing and writing Documents of History of CPI, of which several volumes were published.
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Gangadhar Adhikari meticulously collected materials from all over the world, building rich Archives.
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Gangadhar Adhikari continued this work till he almost lost his sight and till death.
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Gangadhar Adhikari was Chairman of Central Control Commission in his last days.
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Gangadhar Adhikari died at 83 years of age on 21 November 1981 due to heart attack.
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Gangadhar Adhikari compiled the ten volume Documents of the Communist Party of India.