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==Revolutionary activities==
==Revolutionary activities==
Ambika Chakrabarty's father's name was Nanda Kumar Chakarabarty. He was a member of [[Chittagong]] [[Jugantar]] party. He took part in the [[Chittagong armoury raid]] led by [[Surya Sen]]. On 18 April 1930, he led a group of revolutionaries, who destroyed the entire communication system in Chittagong.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ya8eAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ambika+Chakrabarty+Surya+Sen&q=Ambika+Chakrabarty+Surya+Sen&hl=en|title=The Contemporary|date=1970|publisher=R.N. Guha Thakurta|language=en}}</ref> On 22 April 1930, he was seriously injured in the gunfight with the British army in Jalalabad. But he was able to escape. After a few months, he was arrested by the police from his hideout and sentenced to death. However, the sentence was later changed to transportation for life to the [[Cellular Jail]] in [[Port Blair]].<ref name="sengupta">Sengupta, Subodh Chandra (ed.) (1988) ''Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (in Bengali), Kolkata: Sahitya Sansad, p.33</ref>
Ambika Chakrabarty's father's name was Nanda Kumar Chakarabarty. He was a member of [[Chittagong]] [[Jugantar]] party. He took part in the [[Chittagong armoury raid]] led by [[Surya Sen]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDgKAQAAIAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ambica+Chakrabarty&q=Ambica+Chakrabarty&hl=en|title=India: An Encyclopaedic Survey|date=1984|publisher=S. Chand|language=en}}</ref> On 18 April 1930, he led a group of revolutionaries, who destroyed the entire communication system in Chittagong.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ya8eAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ambika+Chakrabarty+Surya+Sen&q=Ambika+Chakrabarty+Surya+Sen&hl=en|title=The Contemporary|date=1970|publisher=R.N. Guha Thakurta|language=en}}</ref> On 22 April 1930, he was seriously injured in the gunfight with the British army in Jalalabad. But he was able to escape. After a few months, he was arrested by the police from his hideout and sentenced to death. However, the sentence was later changed to transportation for life to the [[Cellular Jail]] in [[Port Blair]].<ref name="sengupta">Sengupta, Subodh Chandra (ed.) (1988) ''Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (in Bengali), Kolkata: Sahitya Sansad, p.33</ref>


==Later activities==
==Later activities==

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Ambika Chakraborty
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Political partyCommunist Party of India
Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Ambika Chakrabarty (January 1892 – 6 March 1962) was an Indian independence movement activist and revolutionary.[1] Later, he was a leader of the Communist Party of India and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.[2]

Revolutionary activities

Ambika Chakrabarty's father's name was Nanda Kumar Chakarabarty. He was a member of Chittagong Jugantar party. He took part in the Chittagong armoury raid led by Surya Sen.[3] On 18 April 1930, he led a group of revolutionaries, who destroyed the entire communication system in Chittagong.[4] On 22 April 1930, he was seriously injured in the gunfight with the British army in Jalalabad. But he was able to escape. After a few months, he was arrested by the police from his hideout and sentenced to death. However, the sentence was later changed to transportation for life to the Cellular Jail in Port Blair.[5]

Later activities

Chakrabarty, after his release from the Cellular Jail in 1946, joined the

Calcutta in 1962.[5]

See also

References

  1. ISSN 0012-9976
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  2. ^ Assembly, West Bengal (India) Legislature Legislative (1955). Assembly Proceedings: official report (in Bengali). West Bengal Government Press.
  3. ^ India: An Encyclopaedic Survey. S. Chand. 1984.
  4. ^ The Contemporary. R.N. Guha Thakurta. 1970.
  5. ^ a b Sengupta, Subodh Chandra (ed.) (1988) Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan (in Bengali), Kolkata: Sahitya Sansad, p.33