Many of our comrades have laid down their lives, so will many others in the days to come. For the revolution in India won’t be accomplished without a price. Out of this sacrifice will emerge those death-defying mortals who will smash imperialism to the ground, who through their selfless labour, will build up a new India, the India that holds aloft great hope and inspiration for the people of the world.

-- Charu Mazumdar


THE ROLL OF HONOUR : MARTYRS IMMORTAL

Scores of organisers and activists have so far laid down their lives in the course of the nearly two-decade-long revolutionary peasant struggle in Bihar. This is the first attempt on our part to record the names and other available particulars of these martyr comrades. The names have been arranged, first, districtwise and then in chronological order. Unless otherwise specified all of them belonged either to the undivided CPI(ML) or subsequently to our Party organisation. Note on abbreviations used in the list are given at the end.

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Names in brackets are the ones by which the comrades concerned were known in Party circles. Abbreviations used : LLP = Landless Peasant, PP = Poor Peasant, LMP = Lower-middle Peasant, MP = Middle Peasant, RP = Rich Peasant ACM=Member of an Area Committee, RCM = Member of a Regional Committee, SCM—Member of a State Committee, CCM=-Member of the Central Committee, GS—General Secretary of the Party.

If sympathisers and general peasant masses are also taken into account, the martyrs’ list will become more than twice as long. We have been able to collect minimum informations about 168 such martyrs. Districtwise, the figures are—Patna : 78, Bhojpur : 22, Gaya : 33, Nalanda : 5, Aurangabad : 21, Madhubani : 6, Vaishali : 2, Begusarai : 1;