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mar 17, 1924 - Kanpur Bolshevik Conspiracy Case

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- On 17 March 1924, S.A. Dange, M.N. Roy, Muzaffar Ahmad, Nalini Gupta, Shaukat Usmani, Singaravelu Chettiar, Ghulam Hussain, and others were charged as communists seeking "to deprive the King Emperor of his sovereignty of British India, by complete separation of India from Britain by a violent revolution" in what was called the Cawnpore (now spelled Kanpur) Bolshevik Conspiracy case

- After Kanpur, Britain had triumphantly declared that the case had "finished off the communists".
- But the industrial town of Kanpur, in December 1925, witnessed a conference of different communist groups

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mar 17, 1924
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~ 100 years ago