Shripad Amrit Dange (English: Shripad Amrit Dange, born: 10 October 1899; died: 22 May 1991) has a very important place among the early communist leaders of India. Shripad Amrit Dange was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India.
Shripad Amrit Dange was a resident of Bombay, Maharashtra and he started publishing a newspaper named ‘The Socialist’ to spread socialist ideas in India.
He awakened consciousness among the workers and encouraged them to fight for their interests.
Shripad Amrit Dange was elected member of the second and fourth Lok Sabha.
Dange was also included among the four socialist leaders who were prosecuted under the Kanpur Conspiracy Case. Under this he was sentenced to 4 years.
He also wrote a book named ‘Gandhi and Lenin’, in which a comparative analysis of these two leaders and their ideas is done.