Mohan Kumaramangalam

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Mohan Kumaramangalam
Minister of Iron and Steel Mines
In office
1971–1972
Prime Minister
Thirumudi.N.Sethuraman[1]
Advocate-General for Madras State
In office
1966–1967
Preceded byN. Krishnaswami Reddy
Succeeded byGovind Swaminadhan
Personal details
Born1 November 1916
London, United Kingdom
Died31 May 1973(1973-05-31) (aged 56)
New Delhi, India
NationalityIndian
Political partyCommunist Party of India (1938–1967)
Indian National Congress (1967–1973)
Spouse
Kalyani Mukerjee
​
(m. 1943)​
Relations
General P. P. Kumaramangalam,
Parvathi Krishnan,
Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam (Grandson)
ChildrenUma Kumaramangalam,
Rangarajan Kumaramangalam,
Lalitha Kumaramangalam
ProfessionLawyer

Surendra Mohan Kumaramangalam (

communist theorist who was a member of the Communist Party of India, and later, the Indian National Congress. He also served as Advocate-General for Madras State from 1966 to 1967. Kumaramangalam was killed in the crash of Indian Airlines Flight 440
on May 31, 1973, at the age of 56.

Early life and education

Mohan Kumaramangalam was born in

Cambridge Union Society in 1938.[2] During his period at Cambridge he was deeply influenced by Communism.[3]

Kumaramangalam was called to the bar by the

Indian Independence Movement
.

Career

In the Indian Independence movement

In 1941, Kumaramangalam was arrested along with

Second World War
Kumaramangalam served as the editor of the communist magazine, People's War, which on the conclusion of hostilities he renamed as People's Age.

Post-independence politics

The government medical college hospital in Salem, has been named after Mohan Kumaramangalam

In the days following India's independence Madras Presidency was gripped by a peasant rebellion, which compelled the provincial government to launch a crackdown on communists. Kumaramangalam was arrested along with other communist leaders and released after the rebellion had subsided.[6] Kumaramangalam favoured friendly relations with the Soviet Union and established the Indo-Soviet Cultural Society.[6] However, with the onset of the 1960s Kumaramangalam began distancing himself from communism. He served as Advocate General of Madras. Following the victory of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in the 1967 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, Kumaramangalam resigned from the Communist Party of India and joined the Indian National Congress.[6]

Kumaramangalam was loyal to

Ajit Nath Ray as the Chief Justice of India superseding three senior judges of the Supreme Court of India - J. M. Shelat, A.N Grover and K. S. Hegde.[3]

He served as the Minister of Steel and Mines from 1971 until his death in 1973.[6] One of his first acts in that position was to nationalize the mining industry.[8]

Personal life

Mohan Kumaramangalam married Kalyani Mukerjee, niece of Bengali politician

Atal Behari Vajpayee governments.[9]
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.

Mohan Kumaramangalam's brother

P. P. Kumaramangalam was a distinguished army officer who served as India's Chief of Army Staff.[9] His sister, Parvathi Krishnan was a politician of the Communist Party of India and served three terms as Member of Parliament from Coimbatore.[9]

Kumaramangalam's grandson, Muktesh Mukherjee, and his wife Xiaomao Bai, are among the two Canadian passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 which went missing since 8 March 2014.[10]

Another grandson of Mohan Kumaramanglam is Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam, who has joined politics after working as an entrepreneur and for technology companies. He unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha polls 2014 from Salem on a Congress ticket. He is the working president of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee.[11]

Death

Kumaramangalam was killed in the crash of Indian Airlines Flight 440 on May 31, 1973, at the age of 56.[6] Many of the dead were unidentifiable, but his body was identified by a Parker pen and a hearing aid he wore.[12]

Works

Mohan Kumaramangalam was a prominent communist theorist and authored a number of books and pamphlets. Some of his works include:

  • Mohan Kumaramangalam (1944). A New Germany in birth. People's Publishing House.
  • Mohan Kumaramangalam; Boda Chen (1944). Critique of CHina's destiny: Review of Marshal Chiang Kai Shek's book. People's Publishing House.
  • Mohan Kumaramangalam; Enlai Zhou, Vladimir Rogov, Zhongguo gong chan dang (1944). Who threatens China's unity. People's Publishing House.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Mohan Kumaramangalam (1945). The United Nations: Instrument for peace or dictatorship of the big five. People's Publishing House.
  • Mohan Kumaramangalam (1946). Iran at the Crossroads. People's Publishing House.
  • Mohan Kumaramangalam (1946). India's fight for equality in South Africe. People's Publishing House.
  • Mohan Kumaramangalam (1947). India and the UNO. People's Publishing House.
  • Mohan Kumaramangalam (1965). India's language crisis: an introductory study. New Century Book House.
  • Mohan Kumaramangalam (1966). Democracy and cult of the individual. National Book Club.
  • Mohan Kumaramangalam (1971). Constitutional amendments: the reason why. All India Congress Committee.
  • Mohan Kumaramangalam (1973). Coal industry in India: nationalisation and tasks ahead. Oxford & IBH Pub. Co.
  • Mohan Kumaramangalam (1973). Communists in Congress:Kumaramangalam's thesis. D. K. Pub. House. at Google Books
  • Mohan Kumaramangalam (1973). Judicial appointments: an analysis of the recent controversy over the appointment of the Chief Justice of India. Oxford & IBH Pub. Co.

Notes

  1. ^ "Pondicherry General (Lok Sabha) Election Results 2014". Maps of India. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d Parameshwar Narain Haksar (1979). Premonitions. Interpress. p. 188.
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-19-565610-5
    .
  4. ^ Far Eastern economic review, Volumes 79-80. Review Publishing Co. Ltd. 1973.
  5. ^ M. Chalapathi N. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda (1982). Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru. Orient Longman. p. 502.
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-1-4067-3569-7
    .
  7. ^ "Statistical Reports on the General Elections to the 5th Lok Sabha, 1971" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2009.
  8. ISBN 978-0-465-00311-2
    .
  9. ^ a b c d "Kumaramangalam family's role in development remembered". The Hindu. 17 October 2004. Archived from the original on 19 January 2005.
  10. ^ Edwards, Peter (11 March 2014). "Canadian on missing Malaysian Airlines plane lost grandfather to 1973 plane crash". Toronto Star. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  11. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 November 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. ^ 3 Americans survive, but 4 die in New Delhi crash
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