Communist Party of India
Also called: CPI · Topic: The National Movement: Gandhian Era · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
The Communist Party of India (CPI) was a party that followed Marxist ideas. It wanted to organise workers and peasants against both colonial rule and the rich. M.N. Roy and others formed an early group in Tashkent in 1920. However, the party's founding inside India is usually dated to a conference at Kanpur in December 1925. The British saw it as a threat and banned it in 1934. It matters because it pulled labour and poor peasants towards a more radical idea of swaraj, or self-rule.
Example
In the Meerut Conspiracy Case (1929), the British put many communist and trade-union leaders on trial in an attempt to crush the movement.
Don't confuse with
- Congress Socialist Party (1934): this was a socialist group that worked inside the Congress. The CPI was a separate party.
Related concepts
- All India Kisan Sabha
- Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
- FICCI
- G.D. Birla
- Jamnalal Bajaj
- All India Trade Union Congress
- Meerut conspiracy case
- Women in the civil disobedience movement
- Women's Indian Association
- All India Women's Conference