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M. Kumaramangalam
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Socialist lawyer and politician who studied at Eton College
Other names
Mohan Kumaramangalam
Surendra Mohan Kumaramangalam
Place of birth
Location(s)
Cambridge
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United Kingdom Eton College
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United Kingdom
Place of death
India
About
Mohan Kumaramangalam was born in London in 1916 to Paramasiva and Radhabai Subbarayan. He studied at Eton and then at King's College, Cambridge University. He became President of the Cambridge Majlis in Lent 1937 and President of the Cambridge Union in Michaelmas 1938. He was also a member of the Federation of Indian Student Societies and an active socialist. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple and went to India in 1939.
His mother, Radhabai Subbarayan, was a prominent supporter of women's suffrage and attended the Round Table Conferences in London, 1930–2.
Mohan Kumaramangalam was a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI) until 1966 when he joined the Indian National Congress.
Indira Gandhi (served in her cabinet), M. K. Gandhi, Khushwant Singh.
Cambridge Union
Indians Fight for Equality in South Africa (Bombay: People's Publishing House, 1946)
India's Language Crisis (Madras: New Century Book House, 1965)
Democracy and Cult of Individual (New Delhi: National Book Club, 1966)
Constitutional Amendments (New Delhi: All India Congress Committee, 1971)
Coal Industry in India (New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Pub. Co., 1973)
Communists in Congress (New Delhi: D. K. Publishing House, 1973)
Judicial Appointments (New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Pub. Co., 1973)
Steel Holding Company (New Delhi: Mainstream, 1973)
Haksar, P. N., Premonitions (Bombay: Interpress, 1979)
Kiernan, V. G., 'Mohan Kumaramangalam in England', Socialist India (23 February 1974), pp. 5–7
L/PJ/12/4, India Office Records, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras
Cambridge Majlis minute book, Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
