Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri was born on Apin a Sikh landlord family of Lyallpur in united Punjab, now in Pakistan. His book is full of interesting and informative details, and hence happens to be quite valuable. He remained the General Secretary of the MCPI till the ripe age of 96.
He was thus a brave and principled comrade, though one may not agree with him on many points. He was also one of those prominent figures who had challenged and rebelled against the opportunist trend in the communist movement as represented by the CPI-M. He was one of those who drafted the party programme of the CPI-M. He was one of the leading figures of the CPI-M (and then of the MCPI), who walked out of the CPI in April 1964, along with some others, to form the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in November 1964. Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri was the General Secretary of the Marxist Communist Party of India (MCPI) (not to be confused with the CPI-M), and as such was a historic figure, equipped with a lot of information and history of the communist movement in India. The sad news disheartened me very much, as I wanted the review to appear while he was still alive. 270 Price: Rs 300.Īs these lines were being typed, Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri passed away. My Life, My Times: Journey of a Revolutionary by Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri Publisher: Unistar 2010 pp.
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