Mukunda Behari Mullick

Mukunda Behari Mullick
Born(1888-12-27)27 December 1888
Bagerhat Upzila, Khulna Division, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died4 August 1974(1974-08-04) (aged 85)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
EducationB.A, LLB and M.A (Pali)
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta
OccupationLawyer
OrganizationBengal Depressed Classes Association
Political partyKrishak Praja Party
MovementDalit liberation movement of Bengal

Mukunda Behari Mullick (1888–1974) was an Indian lawyer, reformer, professor and politician.

Career

He enrolled as a lawyer in 1914 at Calcutta High Court and worked as lecturer of Pali and part-time lecturer of law at University of Calcutta.[citation needed]

In 1912 he founded Bengal Namasudra Association and held many conferences to mobilize Chandalas of Bengal under one umbrella. In 1925 he formed the Bengal Depressed Classes Association and was chosen as its first president.[1] In 1929 both organisations formed a joint delegation and gave oral evidence to Simon Commission regarding their support to the commission.[2]

He fought 1921 and 1925 elections from Khulna constituency as independent candidate but lost. Then he was nominated as member of Bengal Legislative Council and re-elected in 1937 elections then became minister of Cooperative Credit & Rural Indebtedness in first A.K Fazlul Haq 's govt.[3] In 1942 he became Chairman of Coal Mines Stowing Board. He voted in favour of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in 1946 Indian general elections.[4][5]

In 1942 Mullick founded Bengal Scheduled Castes Party with his brother Pulinda Behari Mullick and it created two factions among Dalits, another being led by Jogendra Nath Mandal of Bengal Scheduled Caste League.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Bengal Depressed Classes Association - Banglapedia". en.banglapedia.org. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  2. ^ Pioneer, The. "Namasudras of Bengal and impact on nation's freedom movement". The Pioneer. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  3. ^ Hashmi, Taj Ul-islam (11 July 2019). Pakistan As A Peasant Utopia: The Communalization Of Class Politics In East Bengal, 1920-1947. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-31037-5.
  4. ^ Biswas, Saugat K. (2008). Nine Decades of Marxism in the Land of Brahminism. Other Books. ISBN 978-81-906019-3-1.
  5. ^ विस्वास, A. K. Biswas एके (20 November 2016). "How the Bengali chotalok shaped India's destiny". Forward Press. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  6. ^ Roy, Anwesha (3 May 2018). Making Peace, Making Riots. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-42828-6.