Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Tagore)

The Revolutionary Communist Party of India, also known as RCPI (Tagore), is a political party in India, led by Saumyendranath Tagore. RCPI (Tagore) emerged from a split in the Revolutionary Communist Party of India in 1948. RCPI (Tagore) had a major role in Indian politics. Tagore served as the chairman of the party. The party published the Bengali fortnightly Ganabani ('People's Voice').

Tagore, the founder of RCPI in 1934, had been jailed in November 1947. Tagore was released from prison in 1948. At the time a sector of RCPI, led by Pannalal Dasgupta, insisted on turning the campaign of building panchayats into a general armed insurrection. After his release from jail Tagore argued that armed revolution was premature in India.

Dasgupta assembled an All India Party Conference in Birbhum in 1948. Tagore requested to resign from the RCPI Central Committee, a request the Birbhum conference rejected. After the Birbhum conference the followers of Dasgupta began to gather arms and prepare for armed struggle. After the Birbhum conference Tagore, at a public meeting in Calcutta, denounced insurrectional line of Dasgupta. Tagore's speech pushed the Dasgupta group to issue disciplinary action against him, accepting his resignation from the Central Committee. Half a year later Tagore gathered his followers for a separate Party Conference, as its 5th Party Congress, in Burdwan. Thus there were two parallel RCPIs, one led by Dasgupta and one led by Tagore. The former grouping represented the majority in the RCPI. The latter of the two parties came to be known as 'RCPI (Tagore)'.

The RCPI (Tagore) joined the Refugee Central Rehabilitation Council, a body that challenged the main CPI-led United Central Refugee Council.

Ahead of the 1951–1952 general election RCPI (Tagore) joined the United Socialist Organisation of India of Sarat Chandra Bose, but in June 1951 the party broke with the USOI. Instead, on July 18, 1951 RCPI (Tagore) along with the Socialist and the Leela Roy faction of the Forward Bloc formed the People's United Socialist Front (PUSF). RCPI (Tagore) fielded 11 candidates in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1952. None of the candidates was elected, in total the party obtained 35,645 votes (0.48% of the statewide vote). The election symbol of the party was a flaming torch.

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