Satya Bhakta

Satyabhakta (Hindi: सत्यभक्त) (1897 – 1985) who used the mononym, was one of the founders of the Communist Party of India December 25-28, 1925 at Kanpur (then spelled Cawnpore).[1][2][3][4][5]

His original name was Chakhan Lal.[6] He was born in April 2, 1897 in the Bharatpur district in Rajasthan.[7] He was a prolific author in Hindi.

He is distinct from his namesake Swami Satyabhakta, the founder of Satya Samaj who also flourished during the early 20th century.

He became an India nationalist after reading Ananda Math and a book on the rise of Japan. He translated Mahatma Gandhi's books "Sarvodaya" and "Experiences of prison" in Hindi. He wrote numerous biographies starting with Dhondo Keshav Karve in 1916. He attempted to start a communist periodicals Samyavadi (1926) but its issues were confiscated by the British government.

In 1941, he joined the Akhand Jyoti Ashram of Shriram Sharma. He died at the Akhand Jyoti Ashram in 1985.

Writings
  • साम्यवाद का संदेश (The message of Communism), 1934[8]

References
  1. भारत में कम्युनिस्ट आंदोलन: 100 साल के सफ़र के पाँच पड़ावों ने बदला इतिहास, जीएस राममोहन, बीबीसी तेलुगू सेवा, 25 अक्टूबर 2020
  2. Satyabhakta aura Sāmyavādī Pārṭī By Satyabhakta, Karmendu Śiśira, Lokamitra Publications, 2010
  3. Banārasīdāsa Caturvedī ke cunindā patra: eka lambe yuga kī jhān̐kiyām̐, Volume 2, p. 364
  4. Kanpur Communist Conference - 1925, People's Democracy, Nov 24, 2019
  5. COMMUNIST MOVEMENT AND COMMUNAL QUESTION IN INDIA, 1920-1948, PhD Thesis, HABIB MANJAR, ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY, 2008
  6. Vernacular Communism, ‘Marginal’ History of Satyabhakta, Charu Gupta, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 56, Issue No. 23, 05 Jun, 2021,
  7. सत्यभक्त: हिंदी नवजागरण के अलबेले सेनानी, कृष्ण प्रताप सिंह, The Wire Hindi, 02/04/2018
  8. साम्यवाद का संदेश, 1934
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