This article was originally posted on the Dharma Dispatch Substack.

IN 1917, A RADIO BROADCAST IN RUSSIA announced that the Tsarist regime had been overthrown and a new Soviet government had been established. This was the first ever victory of Karl Marx’s political ideology, which had now acquired an entire state for itself: the largest country in the world.

Quite obviously, the event was enormously significant throughout the world and there was great excitement among Communists in non-communist countries.

One such country was England’s most prized colony, India.

This podcast episode traces the nearly century-long history of Communism in India from its founding days up to the present time.

Founded in 1920 in Tashkent by M.N. Roy, the Communist Party of India (CPI) has had a chequered legacy in India. Unarguably its influence, impact and consequences for the country have largely been destructive. This destruction has passed through several key stages but it has undeniably been a force of darkness and violence.

Overall, Communism in India has calculatedly destroyed many important facets of the ancient Hindu spiritual culture and civilisation. Communist forces in India continue to work for the physical break-up of the Indian state by collaborating with the declared enemies of India.

Communism has also been mainly responsible for why India was considered a third world country for more than six decades after it attained independence from the British.

Although Communists exist in India as a political force only nominally in the present time, they have managed to infiltrate their ideology by masking it it clever verbiage and have succeeded in a nationwide capture of government and other public institutions.

This podcast episode is one of its kind offering a capsule history of a century of Communism in India which covers all the major stages in its history.

Happy listening!