G.A.K. Lohani (original) (raw)

Ghulam Ambia Khan Lohani (Bengali: গোলাম আম্বিয়া খান লোহানী, Russian: Голам Аббия Хан Лохани), (2 December 1892 – 17 September 1938), stylized as G.A.K. Lohani, or Luhani, was a South Asian revolutionary, journalist, professor, and founder of the Communist Party of India, who struggled against British rule. In 1938 during the Great Purge, Lohani was arrested and executed by the NKVD on false charges of espionage. He was posthumously rehabilitated (found innocent) in 1957.