Kanak Mukherjee

Kanak Mukherjee
কনক মুখোপাধ্যায়
Personal details
Born
Kanak Dasgupta

(1921-12-30)30 December 1921
Died9 March 2005(2005-03-09) (aged 83)
CitizenshipIndian
Political partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
Other political
affiliations		All India Democratic Women's Association
SpouseSaroj Mukherjee

Kanak Mukherjee (née Dasgupta; 1921 – 2005) was a communist and is regarded as a pioneer of the women's movement in West Bengal.[1] She was a Central Committee member of Communist Party of India (Marxist). She was the founder of the All India Democratic Women's Association.[2] She also contributed in the field of literature.[3]

  1. ^ "A Pioneer Of The Women's Movement". pd.cpim.org. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
  2. ^ "Remembering Kanak Mukherjee". www.sacw.net. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
  3. ^ Basu, Anjali, ed. (1996). Samsad Bengali Charitabidhan (Vol. 2). Kolkata: Sishu Sahitya Samsad. p. 76. ISBN 978-81-7955-292-6.