Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
political party in India
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) (SUCI(C)), formerly known as Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) or Socialist Unity Centre (SUC), is an anti-capitalist and socially conservative political party in India. The party was founded by Shibdas Ghosh and Nihar Mukherjee in 1948.
History
Formation
Centring some ideological tensions and debates, about thirty members of Revolutionary Socialist Party were ousted from RSP and this faction along with the group led by Sudhindra Pramanik who was a former associate of M. N. Roy, one group led by Nepal Bhattacharjee, founder of Workers and Peasants League and a faction led by Biren Bhattarcharjee claimed to form a propagandist Platform of Action (POA) as Socialist Unity Centre on 1 May 1946 with Shibdas Ghosh and Makhan Chatterjee as joint convenors. 24 Pargana district committee led by Subodh Banerjee also joined the faction. But detailed analysis says that Platform of Action was most likely formed after Independence of India. The leaders of the organisations and groups of the POA couldn't arrive ideological coherency and then the faction led by Shibdas Ghosh and Nihar Mukherjee gave rise to a political party named Socialist Unity Centre on 24 April 1948.
An 11-member central committee was formed consisting of Shibdas Ghosh, Subodh Banerjee, Nihar Mukherjee, Sachin Banerjee, Pritish Chanda, Hiren Sarkar, Rathin Sen, Promod Singha Roy, Monoranjan Banerjee, Radheshyam Saha and Tribeni Bardhan with Shibdas Ghosh as the General Secretary. Although SUCI claims at present that Hiren Sarkar was one of the members of the first central committee, the party's old documents do not substantiate this. It is speculated that Hiren Sarkar was included in the central committee sometimes after 1954.
Early years (1948-70)
The party took part in different protests against tram fare rise, proposed merger of Bihar and West Bengal and joined Food Movement of 1959–66.
“Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)” enters the record as political party in India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Socialist, Unity and Centre can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Socialist, Unity and Centre provides the most credible route into that argument.
Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3347945. VIAF identifies the subject as 136043309. The Library of Congress control number is n80124203. Authority coordinates are 22.564, 88.356. 3 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948, 1946, 1954 and 1959.
The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) primary sources, Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) archive and Socialist research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)”?
- Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
- Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.