Peasant movements · Land reform
Life and work
1915–1974 · Peasant organiser and state minister
Hare Krishna Konar was a revolutionary and peasant organiser whose public life became closely associated with West Bengal’s agrarian politics. After his release from imprisonment in 1938, he worked in the peasant movement. He later served as minister for land and land revenue in the United Front governments formed in 1967 and 1969.[1]
His work on surplus and benami land connects his biography to the wider history of cultivation, landholding and rural political organisation. The remembrance used here was written by a political colleague; its perspective and inconsistencies are explained in the source catalogue.[1]
Achintya Kumar Dutta includes him in his discussion of Ugra Kshatriya figures in Explorations in Colonial Bengal (2023), p. 314. Spellings of names vary between publications.[2]