Hare Krishna Konar
Hare Krishna Konar (, ; 5 August 1915 – 23 July 1974) was an Indian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist, charismatic peasant leader and politician. Konar was a founding member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the figurehead behind India's first land reform, and the chief architect of the West Bengal land distribution. Between the 1960s and 1970s, he became one of the principal leaders of the Communist movements in India. In 1932, due to his involvement in the Begut Robbery Case of the Jugantar Party, Konar was deported to the Cellular Jail of the Andaman for 6 years at the age of 18, there he took part in the first hunger strike and in 1935 he founded the Communist Consolidation and led the historical second hunger strike. Early life and revolutionary activities (1915–32) Hare Krishna Konar was the eldest son of Sarat Chandra Konar and Satyabala Konar, his father and mother lived in Kamargoria village across the Damodar River, the ancestral home in Raina of Bardhaman district. Konar was born into an upper-middle-class family on August 5, 1915. His father was a well known businessman as well as a landlord in Kamargoria village. After a certain age he started