{{Short description|Indian politician}} {{More footnotes needed|date=August 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Souren Bose | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1924|6|25}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1997|08|17|1924|06|25|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |title=COMRADE SOREN BOSE: A BOLSHEVIK TILL HIS DEATH - KN RAMACHANDAN |url=http://www.cpiml.in/cms/articles-news-statements-2/itemlist/tag/SOREN%20BOSE |publisher=cpiml |access-date=13 September 2020}}</ref> | death_place = Mumbai | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- (use {{coord …}}) --> | citizenship = | spouse = <!-- or: spouses --> | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | institution = <!-- or: institutions --> | field = | school_tradition = | alma_mater = | occupation = Author | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | influences = | contributions = | awards = | memorials = | repec_prefix = | repec_id = | module = | signature = <!-- filename only --> | notes = <!-- or: footnotes --> | party = Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) }}
'''Souren Bose''' (25 June 1924 – 17 August 1997) was one of the founders of the Naxalite movement in India and an influential figure in the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mitra|first=Sumit|date=31 May 1979|title=Naxalite leaders Kanu Sanyal, Souren Bose find fire has gone out of their movement|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/special-report/story/19790531-naxalite-leaders-kanu-sanyal-souren-bose-find-fire-has-gone-out-of-their-movement-822086-2014-03-12|access-date=2020-08-27|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Chattopadhyay|first=Suhrid Sankar|date=23 April 2010|title=End of a revolution|url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/obituary/article30180072.ece|access-date=2020-08-27|website=Frontline|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Roy|first=Asish Kumar|date=July 1979|title=Charu Mazumdar: Man and Ideas|url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000944557901500401|journal=China Report|language=en|volume=15|issue=4|pages=7|doi=10.1177/000944557901500401|s2cid=220874730 |issn=0009-4455|url-access=subscription}}</ref> At the congress of the CPI(M) in 1967 he questioned the absence of a portrait of Mao Zedong at the conference venue. When the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) was formed, he joined the new party.
Bose travelled to China, and was one of very few Indian Maoists that had direct meetings with the Chinese leadership. When he returned to India he presented the criticisms raised by the Chinese towards the line of the CPI(ML), but was cornered by the CPI(ML) leader Charu Majumdar. His dialogue with Zhou Enlai have been published as a pamphlet.
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