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Sibnath Banerjee

Indian revolutionary

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ115802328 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sibnath Banerjee was an Indian revolutionary and trade union leader who founded the Hind Mazdoor Sabha, and served as President of the All India Trade Union Congress.

Personal life

He was born on 11 July 1897. In 1935, he was arrested by the British government. He died on 16 February 1937.

Honor

In 1997, the India Post honored him by issuing a commemorative stamp.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sibnath Banerjee” is indian revolutionary. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sibnath, Banerjee and Indian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1897, 1935, 1937, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Sibnath, Banerjee and Indian is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115802328. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1897, 1935, 1937 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sibnath Banerjee” 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.