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[[Janab]] '''A.M.A. Zaman''' was an [[India]]n politician and [[trade union]]ist. As of 1936 he served as councillor in the [[Calcutta Municipal Corporation]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Calcutta Municipal Gazette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9r8JQ5zMEMoC|volume=24|year=1936|publisher=Office of the Registrar of Newspapers. Press in India|page=533}}</ref> He won the Hooghly labour seat in the 1936–1937 Bengal Legislative Assembly election.<ref name="Basu1992">{{cite book|author=Nirban Basu|title=The Political Parties and the Labour Politics, 1937–47: With Special Reference to Bengal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VYqKAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1992|publisher=Minerva Associates (Publications)|isbn=978-81-85195-48-3|pages=29, 79, 145}}</ref> At the time he belonged to the [[Congress Socialist Party]], but he was known for shifting party affiliations frequently.<ref name="Basu1992"/>

A.M.A. Zaman was involved in different trade unions. He was a leader of [[Jute]] mill workers during the struggle for independence.<ref name="HasanBhattacharya2008">{{cite book|first=Mushirul|last1=Hasan|first2=Sabyasachi|last2=Bhattacharya|author3=Indian Council of Historical Research|title=Towards Freedom: Documents on the Movement for Independence in India 1939|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461770|year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-569651-6|page=1051}}</ref> Whereas many other leaders hailed from the ''[[bhadralok]]'', upper classes, A.M.A. Zaman hailed from a working-class background and had been a jute mill worker himself.<ref name="Cox2013">{{cite book|author=Anthony Cox|title=Empire, Industry and Class: The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840–1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YP3fCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA227|date=2 April 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-12730-5|page=227}}</ref> In the midst of the 1936–1937 labour unrest he founded a jute mill workers union, which was registered in 1936.<ref name="Chakrabarty2000">{{cite book|author=Dipesh Chakrabarty|title=Rethinking Working-class History: Bengal, 1890–1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7IFIc-mxTo0C&pg=PA139|year=2000|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=0-691-07030-X|pages=129, 139}}</ref> In July 1937 A.M.A. Zaman was convicted of rioting at a strike in the Wellington Jute Mills in [[Rishra]], but thousands of Hooghly workers turned to the streets to demand his release.<ref name="Chakrabarty2000"/> A.M.A. Zaman was one of the key speakers of the mass labour rally in Calcutta of 29 July 1937.<ref name="Chatterjee1991">{{cite book|author=Pranab Kumar Chatterjee|title=Struggle and Strife in Urban Bengal, 1937–47: A Study of Calcutta-based Urban Politics in Bengal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OXNuAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Das Gupta & Company|page=52}}</ref> In December 1937 he was elected general secretary of the Bengal Provincial Trade Union Congress.<ref name="Basu1992"/> However, his influence in Hooghly decreased as ''sardars'' and ''babus'' disseminated a rumour that he had taken a bribe from mill management.<ref name="Haan1994">{{cite book|author=Arjan de Haan|title=Unsettled settlers: migrant workers and industrial capitalism in Calcutta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4A7mRQ5kjLIC&pg=PA170|year=1994|publisher=Uitgeverij Verloren|isbn=90-6550-418-4|page=170}}</ref>

A.M.A. Zaman left the CSP in 1939, after which the party ceased to be influential in [[Hooghly District]].<ref name="Basu1994">{{cite book|author=Nirban Basu|title=The working class movement: a study of jute mills of Bengal, 1937–47|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lU7tAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=K.P. Bagchi & Co.|isbn=978-81-7074-148-0|page=258}}</ref> He belonged to the grouping that opposed [[Indrajit Gupta]]'s influence in the BPTUC.<ref name="Batabyal2005">{{cite book|author=Rakesh Batabyal|title=Communalism in Bengal: From Famine To Noakhali, 1943–47|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=96_LRi9O06oC&pg=PA127|date=1 May 2005|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-3335-9|page=127}}</ref>

A.M.A. Zaman was re-elected from the Hooghly-cum-Serampore Registered Factories, Labour seat in the Bengal Legislative Assembly in the 1946 election.<ref name="Chattopadhyay1984">{{cite book|author=Gautam Chattopadhyay|title=Bengal Electoral Politics and Freedom Struggle, 1862–1947|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXEeAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Indian Council of Historical Research|page=232}}</ref> He belonged to the [[Indian National Congress]] during this period.<ref name="DevLahiri1985">{{cite book|author1=Bimal J. Dev|author2=Dilip Kumar Lahiri|title=Assam Muslims: Politics & Cohesion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oo10MkzU5DQC&pg=PA102|year=1985|publisher=Mittal Publications|page=102|id=GGKEY:0HUQDGDS59Y}}</ref>

After Independence, A.M.A. Zaman won the [[Jalangi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jalangi constituency seat]] of the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]] in the [[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951 election]] as an [[Indian National Congress]] candidate.<ref name=vidhansabha1952>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 30 November 2016}}</ref><ref name="Committee">{{cite book|author=Communist Party of India (Marxist). West Bengal State Committee|title=Election results of West Bengal: statistics & analysis, 1952–1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CNeNAAAAMAAJ|publisher=The Committee|page=422}}</ref> As of 1956 he served as Parliamentary Secretary for the Labour Department.<ref name="Assembly1956">{{cite book|author=West Bengal (India). Legislature. Legislative Assembly|title=Assembly Proceedings: official report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3zVYAAAAMAAJ|date=3 July 1956|publisher=West Bengal Government Press|page=ii}}</ref>

He was the founding president of the Shiva Glass Employees Union during his tenure as legislator.<ref name="Court1950">{{cite book|author=India. Supreme Court|title=Supreme Court Labour Judgments, 1950–1976: Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (Contd.) to Industrial Disputes (Punjab Amendment) Act. 1957|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fs5ZAAAAYAAJ|year=1950|publisher=Law Publishing House|page=2834}}</ref>

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