Muzaffar Ahmed (Bengali: মুজাফ্‌ফর আহমেদ) (August 5, 1889 – December 18, 1973) was a noted Bengali politician, journalist and communist activist, popularly known as "Kakababu".

Contents 1 Background 2 Kakababu and the communist movement 3 Death 4 Major works 5 References

[edit] Background

He was born in Musapur (in present day Bangladesh). His father's name was Mansur Ali. In 1920, along with Kazi Nazrul Islam he started a new magazine, Navayug. Later, when another magazine, Dhumketu was launched by Nazrul in 1922, he started contributing to it various articles under the pseudonym "Dvaipayana".

[edit] Kakababu and the communist movement

He was one of the pioneers to spread the communist movement in the Indian subcontinent. In 1922, the Bharat Samyatantra Samiti was formed in Calcutta with Kakababu as its secretary. In 1924, he was sentenced to four years of imprisonment in the Kanpur Bolshevik Conspiracy Case along with S.A. Dange, Nalini Gupta and Shaukat Usmani^[1]. He was released from the prison because of his sickness in 1925. In November, 1925 he along with Qazi Nazrul Islam, Hemanta Kumar Sarkar and others organized Labour Swaraj Party in Bengal^[2].

On March 20, 1929 British colonial government arrested 31 labour activists and sent them to Meerut for trial. Kakababu, along with S.A. Dange, Shaukat Usmani, P.C. Joshi and others was convicted in this Meerut Conspiracy Case. he was imprisoned till 1933. He is considered by some as the founder of the Communist movement in Bengal.

On March 25, 1948, the Communist Party of India was banned by the Government of India and Kakababu was imprisoned. He was released from the prison in 1951. He was again arrested and imprisoned for two years in 1962.

[edit] Death

He died in Calcutta in 1973, aged 84.

[edit] Major works

• Qazi Nazrul Islam: Smritikatha (in Bengali)
• Amar Jiban O Bharater Communist Party (in Bengali)

[edit] References