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{{Short description|Indian independence movement activist and revolutionary (1892–1962)}}
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{{infobox person
| name             = Ambika Chakraborty
| image            = Freedom fighter Ambika Chakraborty.jpg
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| nationality      = Indian
| party            = [[Communist Party of India]] 
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1892|01||df=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Chittagong]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[British Raj|British India]]
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1962|03|06|1892|01|df=y}}
| death_place      = Calcutta, West Bengal, India
| organization       =[[Jugantar]]
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'''Ambika Chakrabarty''' (January 1892 – 6 March 1962) was an [[Indian independence movement]] activist and revolutionary.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gupta|first=Sarmistha Dutta|date=2013|title=Death and Desire in Times of Revolution|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23528276|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=48|issue=37|pages=59–68|jstor=23528276|issn=0012-9976|access-date=14 July 2023|archive-date=31 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531075441/https://www.jstor.org/stable/23528276|url-status=live}}</ref> Later, he was a leader of the [[Communist Party of India]] and a member of the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Assembly|first=West Bengal (India) Legislature Legislative|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JzZYAAAAMAAJ&q=Ambika+Chakrabarty+Communist+Party|title=Assembly Proceedings: official report|date=1955|publisher=West Bengal Government Press|language=bn|access-date=14 July 2023|archive-date=14 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714075432/https://books.google.com/books?id=JzZYAAAAMAAJ&q=Ambika+Chakrabarty+Communist+Party|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Revolutionary activities==
Ambika Chakrabarty's father's name was Nanda Kumar Chakarabarty. He was a member of [[Chittagong]] [[Jugantar]] party.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} 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&q=Ambika+Chakrabarty+Surya+Sen|title=The Contemporary|date=1970|publisher=R.N. Guha Thakurta|language=en|access-date=14 July 2023|archive-date=14 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714075434/https://books.google.com/books?id=ya8eAAAAMAAJ&q=Ambika+Chakrabarty+Surya+Sen|url-status=live}}</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==
Chakrabarty, after his release from the Cellular Jail in 1946, joined the [[Communist Party of India]]. He was elected to the Bengal Provincial Legislative Assembly in the same year. In 1952, he was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from [[Tollyganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Tollygunge (South)]] constituency as a Communist Party of India candidate. He died in a road accident in Calcutta in 1962.<ref name="sengupta"/>

==See also==
* [[Ganesh Ghosh]]
* [[Ananta Singh]]

==References==
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[[Category:1892 births]]
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[[Category:Anti-British establishment revolutionaries from East Bengal]]
[[Category:Indian revolutionaries]]
[[Category:Revolutionary movement for Indian independence]]
[[Category:Communist Party of India politicians from West Bengal]]
[[Category:People from Chittagong District]]
[[Category:West Bengal MLAs 1951–1957]]
[[Category:Indian prisoners sentenced to death]]
[[Category:Prisoners sentenced to death by India]]


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