Sushil Kumar Dhara

Sushil Kumar Dhara (2 March 1911 – 28 January 2011) was a revolutionary in British India and a political leader after Indian Independence in 1947.

[1] Dhara was born on 2 March 1911 in Tikarampur (near Tamluk) in Mahisadal in the present Purba Medinipur district into a Hindu Mahishya family.

In August 1942, he played the lead role in launching an anti-British movement in undivided Midnapore along with Satish Chandra Samanta and Ajoy Mukherjee.

[3] After independence of India, Dhara won several elections, which included the Mahisadal constituency of West Bengal Assembly in 1962, 1967 and 1969.

He had published a book titled Ken ei banya written by Narayan Chandra Ghosh for circulation in the lower Damodar Basin.