In Memory : 50th Death Anniversary
Life of Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh, real name Nguyen
Tat Thanh (1890-1969), Vietnamese
Communist leader and the principal
force behind the Vietnamese
struggle against French colonial
rule. Ho was born on May 19, 1890,
in the village of Kimlien, Annam
(central Vietnam), the son of an
official who had resigned in protest
against French domination of his
country. Ho attended school in Hue
and then briefly taught at a private
school in Phan Thiet. In 1911 he was
employed as a cook on a French
steamship liner and thereafter
worked in London and Paris. After
World War I, using the pseudonym
Nguyen Ai Quoc (Nguyen the
Patriot), Ho engaged in radical
activities and was in the founding
group of the French Communist
party. He was summoned to Moscow
for training and, in late 1924, he
was sent to Canton, China, where
he organized a revolutionary
movement among Vietnamese
exiles. He was forced to leave China
when local authorities cracked
down on Communist activities, but
he returned in 1930 to found the
Indochinese Communist party
(ICP). He stayed in Hong Kong as
representative of the Communist
International. In June 1931 Ho was
arrested there by British police and
remained in prison until his release
in 1933. He then made his way back
to the Soviet Union, where he
reportedly spent several years
recovering from tuberculosis. In
1938 he returned to China and
served as an adviser with Chinese
Communist armed forces. When
Japan occupied Vietnam in 1941,
he resumed contact with ICP
leaders and helped to found a new
Communist-dominated
independence movement, popularly
known as the Vietminh, that fought
the Japanese. In August 1945, when
Japan surrendered, the Vietminh
seized power and proclaimed the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
(DRV) in Hanoi. Ho Chi Minh, now
known by his final and best-known
pseudonym (which means the
“Enlightener”), became president.
The French were unwilling to grant
independence to their colonial
subjects, and in late 1946 war broke
out. For eight years Vietminh
guerrillas fought French troops in
the mountains and rice paddies of
Vietnam, finally defeating them in
the decisive Battle of Dien Bien Phu
in 1954. Ho, however, was deprived
of his victory. Subsequent
negotiations at Geneva divided the
country, with only the North assigned
to the Vietminh. The DRV, with Ho
still president, now devoted its
efforts to constructing a Communist
society in North Vietnam. In the early
1960s, however, conflict resumed
in the South, where Communist-led
guerrillas mounted an insurgency
against the U.S.-supported regime
in Saigon. Ho, now in poor health,
was reduced to a largely ceremonial
role, while policy was shaped by
others. On September 3, 1969, he
died in Hanoi of heart failure. In his
honor, after the Communist
conquest of the South in 1975,
Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh
City. Ho Chi Minh was not only the
founder of Vietnamese communism,
he was the very soul of the
revolution and of Vietnam’s struggle
for independence. His personal
qualities of simplicity, integrity, and
determination were widely admired,
not only within Vietnam but else
where as well.
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Gitanjali Gems
Rei Agro
Winsome Diamonds and Jewellery
Ruchi Soya Industries
Rotomac Global
Kingfisher Airlines
Kudos Chemie
Zoom Developers
Deccan Chronicle Holdings
ABG Shipyard
Forever Precious Jewellery and Diamonds
Surya Vinayak Industries
SKumars Nationawide
Gili India
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Sum Rs.crore
5,044
4,197
3,386
3,225
2,844
2,488
2,326
2,024
1,951
1,875
1,718
1,628
1,581
1,447
Siddhi Vinayak Logistic
VMC systems
Gupta Coal India
Nakshatra Brands
Indian Technomac Co
Shree Ganesh Jewellery House
Jain Infraprojects
Surya Pharmaceuticals
Nakoda
KS Oils
Coastal Projects
Hanung Toys and Textiles
First Leasing Co of India
Concast Steel and power
Action Ispat and Power
Diamond Power Infrastructure
1,349
1,314
1,235
1,148
1,091
1,085
1,076
1,065
1,028
1,026
984
949
929
888
888
869
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