Gangadhar Adhikari
Dr. Gangadhar Adhikari was a prominent Marxist theoretician and prolific writer. He was the former general secretary of the Communist Party of India, one of the oldest political parties in India.He was a chemical scientist who earned his Ph.D. degree in Berlin in 1927. He worked with some of the best scientists, attending lectures by Max Planck and Albert Einstein.Biography
Dr. Adhikari was in Germany between 1922 and 1928 and was attracted to Marxism. He joined the German Communist Party. He returned to India in 1928 and joined the Communist Party of India. He was arrested in the Meerut Conspiracy Case. Albert Einstein wrote an open letter to the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald seeking release of the scientist Adhikari.
Adhikari was elected the General Secretary of Communist Party of India in the National Conference held at Kolkata in 1933.
Adhikari was a member of the CPI Politburo 1943-1951.
Adhikari's position on the national question, published in 1943 under the name Pakistan and Indian National Unity, was inspired by Joseph Stalin's Marxism and the National Question as it stressed the importance of a nationality to share a common language, a defined territory and a common national consciousness.
He compiled the ten volume Documents of the Communist Party of India.
