Mahé Socialist Party Explained

The Mahe Socialist Party (French: Parti socialiste de Mahé) was a political party in Mahé, French India. The party was a unit of the Indian Socialist Party. It had no links to the Socialist Party of French India of Edouard Goubert.[1] Raghavan Mangalat was the secretary of the party.[2]

The Mahe Socialist Party played a prominent role in the 1948 rebellion in Mahé. Several of its leaders were arrested. Raghavan Mangalat was sentenced to twenty years of imprisonment for his role in the revolt.[2] [1] The Mahe Socialist Party participated in the Joint Conference of the representatives of the people of the Portuguese and French Settlements in India, a body of parties formed in May 1951 supporting integration of Goa and French India into independent India.[3]

The Mahe Socialist Party won one of the three seats assigned to Mahé in the August 1959 Pondicherry Representative Assembly election.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: La révolte de Mahé en 1948, de J.B.P. More . 16 June 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110813150627/http://cidif.go1.cc/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=197&Itemid=3#_ftnref14 . 13 August 2011 . dead .
  2. http://mahewelfare.com/tourism/default.asp?Ar=Personality&Gr=5
  3. http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/VOL-VIII-PART-I/GOA_FREEDOM_VOL_VIII_PART_I_PAGE_250_284.pdf
  4. Web site: 12-Le transfert-Part.2 (2) Evolution de 1955 à 1958 . 16 February 2020 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120325191432/http://www.cidif.go1.cc/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=152&Itemid=3 . 2012-03-25 . CIDIF . 28 December 2008 .