Later Life
Not a lot is known of Acharya's work after 1921. He is known to have organised an international committee for political prisoners in the 1937, and along with Albert Meltzer, worked for the aid of Chinese political prisoners at the time. Conflicting accounts suggest he returned to India in 1935. or in 1948. He spent the last few years of his life in poverty in Bombay, where he was known to a small circle of friends. M.P.T. Acharya died in a hospital in Bombay in 1951.
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