oct 17, 1920 - Communist Party of India (CPI)

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- The formation of the Communist Party of India on 17 October 1920 at Tashkent. The seven members were M. N. Roy, Evelyn Roy-Trent, Abani Mukherjee, Rosa Fitingov, Mohammad Ali, Mohamad Shafiq and Acharya

Formalisation of formation of CPI
- But the industrial town of Kanpur, in December 1925, witnessed a conference of different communist groups, under the chairmanship of Singaravelu Chettiar
- Dange, Muzaffar Ahmed, Nalini Gupta, and Shaukat Usmani were among the key organizers of the meeting
- The meeting adopted a resolution for the formation of the Communist Party of India with its headquarters in Bombay