Surendra Mohan Kumaramangalam was an Indian politician and communist theorist who was a member of the Communist Party of India, and later, the Indian National Congress.
20 Facts About Mohan Kumaramangalam
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Mohan Kumaramangalam served as Advocate-General for Madras State from 1966 to 1967.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam was born in London to P Subbarayan, then zamindar of Kumaramangalam in Thiruchengode Taluk, Namakkal district and later, Chief Minister of Madras Presidency and his wife, Radhabai Subbarayan on 1 November 1916.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam was their third and youngest son, Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam and Gopal Kumaramangalam being elder to him.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, serving as President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1938.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam was called to the bar by the Inner Temple.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam returned to India in 1939 and participated in the Indian Independence Movement.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam was arrested along with other communist leaders and released after the rebellion had subsided.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam favoured friendly relations with the Soviet Union and established the Indo-Soviet Cultural Society.
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However, with the onset of the 1960s Mohan Kumaramangalam began distancing himself from communism.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam was loyal to Indira Gandhi when the party split and was elected to the Lok Sabha from Pondicherry in the 1971 elections.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam served as the Minister of Steel and Mines from 1971 until his death in 1973.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam married Kalyani Mukerjee, niece of Bengali politician Ajoy Mukherjee in 1943.
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Mohan's daughter, Lalitha Kumaramangalam contested the 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha elections as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Tiruchirapalli and lost on both occasions.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam was a distinguished army officer who served as India's Chief of Army Staff.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam's sister, Parvathi Krishnan was a politician of the Communist Party of India and served three terms as Member of Parliament from Coimbatore.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha polls 2014 from Salem on a Congress ticket.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam is the working president of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam was killed in the crash of Indian Airlines Flight 440 on May 31,1973, at the age of 56.
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Mohan Kumaramangalam was a prominent communist theorist and authored a number of books and pamphlets.