Political Science · Indian Political Thought
UGC NET December 2014 Political Science
In which of the following countries did Narendranath Bhattacharya settle under the name of Manabendra Nath Roy?
AJava
BUnited States of America
CGermany
DMexico ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Mexico — Narendranath Bhattacharya adopted the name Manabendra Nath Roy in Mexico, so Mexico is the answer.
Explanation
★Narendranath Bhattacharya adopted the name Manabendra Nath Roy in Mexico, so Mexico is the answer.
★It was in Mexico that he helped found the Mexican Communist Party in 1919, the first communist party outside Russia.
★Born in 1887 in Bengal, he was drawn into the revolutionary Swadeshi movement in his youth.
★He left India seeking arms for an armed uprising and travelled through East Asia and the United States before reaching Mexico.
★It was there that the Bengali revolutionary remade himself as the international communist theorist M.N. Roy.
★He went on to play a leading role at the Communist International (Comintern) and in founding the Communist Party of India.
★The distractor countries Java, the USA and Germany were places he passed through or worked in, but the new name was taken in Mexico.
★In October 1920 Roy helped establish the Tashkent group of the Communist Party of India.
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