Avtar Singh Malhotra
Avtar Singh Malhotra was a Punjabi politician belonging to the Communist Party of India from Punjab, India. He is famous for his active leadership to communist and patriotic resistance in 1980's during separatist insurgency in Punjab.Biography
Born on 18 April 1917, at Daultala town, in Rawalpindi District, British Punjab, Mr Malhotra spent his childhood there.
After passing the MA in first division in the 1940s, Mr Malhotra became a lecturer of English in a college at Rawalpindi. He joined communist movement during this period. He quit his job in 1945 and became the editor of the communist party publication weekly Jange Azadi.Books
- The Punjab Crisis and the Way Out
- Save Punjab, Save India
- Punjab Problem and Solution
- What is the Communist Party?
- Punjab: Martyrs of CPI : they gave their lives for communal amity and national integrity
- For Indian Unity Democratise Centre-state Relations
- Role of Communists in the Struggle for Linguistic States
- The Nature of the Bahujan Samaj Party
- History of Sirsa Town