G.A.K. Lohani
Ghulam Ambia Khan Lohani (2 December 1892 – 17 September 1938), stylized as G.A.K. Lohani, or Luhani, was a Bengali revolutionary, journalist, professor, and founder of the Communist Party of India, who struggled against British rule.
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গোলাম আম্বিয়া খান লোহানী | |
NKVD mugshot of Lohani in 1938 | |
| Born | 2 December 1892 Sirajganj, Bengal Presidency, British India (now in Bangladesh) |
| Died | 17 September 1938 (aged 45) Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Organization(s) | Communist Party of India, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Comintern, Krestintern, International Red Aid |
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During 1914–1925, Lohani lived in Europe, where he studied law and then became active in the local labor movement and Indian independence movement. Inspired by Russia's 1917 October Revolution, he attended the 1921 Third World Congress of the Comintern where he corresponded with Vladimir Lenin. In 1925, he moved permanently to the USSR, where he worked as a translator, researcher and professor, authoring numerous articles on South Asian society and revolutionary strategy.
In 1938, during the Great Purge, Lohani was arrested and executed by the NKVD on false charges of espionage. He was posthumously rehabilitated (found innocent) in 1957.