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Sambhu Ghosh

Indian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionNov 9, 2024
Entity authorityQ27998781 ↗
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Sambhu Charan Ghosh (10 June 1927 – 15 June 1986) was an Indian politician and scholar, belonging to the All India Forward Bloc. He was a member of the Central Committee of the party.

Biography

Ghosh was born on 10 June 1927. He was the son of Nityananda Ghosh. He was married to Chitra Ghosh and they had their only son namely Ritabrata Ghosh. Ghosh obtained B.Sc., B.A. and M.A. degrees from Calcutta University. As a student he became a follower of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. He took up a position as lecturer of philosophy at Uluberia College. He took part in the Indian struggle for independence and in 1944 he became a member of the All India Forward Bloc. Ghosh served as Commissioner of Hooghly-Chinsurah municipality for many years.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sambhu Ghosh” 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.