In 1920, Saumyendranath Tagore joined the "Akhil Bharat Chatra Sammelan" in Ahmedabad.
19 Facts About Saumyendranath Tagore
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Saumyendranath Tagore befriended Muzaffar Ahmed and the poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam.
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Saumyendranath Tagore attended the 6th Congress of the Communist International.
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Saumyendranath Tagore came to oppose the Comintern's "Popular Front" strategy in the 1930s, regarding it as a betrayal of proletarian revolution.
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Saumyendranath Tagore had turned hostile towards Stalin, possibly as in reaction to his failed bid to gain recognition from the Communist International in 1928.
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Saumyendranath Tagore formed the Communist League of India on 1 August 1934.
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Saumyendranath Tagore's BPKS demanded abolition of the zamindari system without giving any compensation to landlords, free distribution of land among the cultivators and agricultural labourers, minimization of revenue demands and cancellation of debts to moneylenders.
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In November 1938 Saumyendranath Tagore visited Assam and met with a group of students and youth.
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Saumyendranath Tagore's visit was organized by the Congressman Debranath Sarma.
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Saumyendranath Tagore made a second visit to Assam in December 1941.
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Saumyendranath Tagore argued, instead, that armed revolution was premature in India.
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Saumyendranath Tagore presented his resignation from the RCPI Central Committee, a request that the Birbhum conference rejected.
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Saumyendranath Tagore's speech pushed the Dasgupta group to accept his resignation from the Central Committee.
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Half a year later Saumyendranath Tagore gathered his followers for a separate party conference, calling it the 5th Party Congress, in Burdwan.
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In 1933, Saumyendranath Tagore was arrested on the charge of plotting to assassinate Hitler, while he was in Munich, Germany and kept in custody at the Gestapo prison.
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The Associated Press wrongly reported that "son of the world famous poet, Sir Rabindranath Saumyendranath Tagore" was arrested, rather than grand nephew; after the intervention of the British Consul-General from India, Saumyendranath Tagore was released the very next day and set out for Paris.
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Saumyendranath Tagore wrote articles in French, Russian, German, English and Bengali languages.
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Saumyendranath Tagore married Srimati Hutheesingh from an aristocratic Jain Gujarati Hutheesing family of Ahmedabad.
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Saumyendranath Tagore was a student in Shantiniketan and a well known dancer and choreographer who took training in dance in India and abroad.