 Complete the following phrase:  He was born in Rangpur in British India, and studied in Rangpur and Pabna before moving to Birbhum. A committed leftist from an early age, he joined the Communist Party and was active in anti-fascist progressive circles. He was arrested and jailed for his political activism. He saw from up close the cataclysmic events that shook Bengal in the 1940s, namely the 