Background
Born in a progressive landlord family in Siliguri in 1918. His father was a freedom fighter.
politician communist revolutionary
Born in a progressive landlord family in Siliguri in 1918. His father was a freedom fighter.
He joined "All Bengal Students Association"
Dropping out of college in 1937-1938 he joined the Indian National Congress and tried to organise bidi workers. He later crossed over to the Communist Party of India (CPI) to work in its peasant front. Soon an arrest-warrant forced him to go underground for the first time as a Left activist. Although the CPI was banned at the outbreak of World War II, he continued CPI activities among peasants and was made a member of the CPI Jalpaiguri district committee in 1942. The promotion emboldened him to organise a "seizure of crops" campaign in Jalpaiguri during the Great Famine of 1943 more or less successfully. In 1946 he joined the Tebhaga movement and embarked on a proletariat militant struggle in North Bengal. The stir shaped his vision of a revolutionary struggle. Later he worked among tea garden workers in Darjeeling. The CPI was banned in 1948 and he spent the next three years in jail.
During the mid 1960s Majumdar organized a leftist faction in Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) in northern Bengal. In 1967 a militant peasant uprising took place in Naxalbari, led by the Majumdar group. This group would later become known as the Naxalites and eight articles written by him at this time—known as the Historic Eight Documents — have been seen as providing their ideological foundation: arguing that revolution must take the path of armed struggle on the pattern of the Chinese revolution. The same year Majumdar broke away and formed the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries which in 1969 founded the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)—with Majumdar as its General Secretary.
a freedom fighter