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Leela Roy (Leela Nag) was born on 2 October, 1900 in Goalpara, Bengal Presidency, British India, is an Indian independence activist and politician. Discover Leela Roy's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 2 October 1900
Birthday 2 October
Birthplace Goalpara, Bengal Presidency, British India
Date of death 11 June, 1970
Died Place Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Nationality India

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1900

Leela Roy, (2 October 1900 – 11 June 1970), was a radical leftist Indian woman politician and reformer, and a close associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

She was born in Goalpara, Assam to Girish Chandra Naag, who was a deputy magistrate, and her mother was Kunjalata Naag.

She was the first female student of Dhaka University.

1917

She was born into an upper middle class Bengali Kayastha family in Goalpara district of Bengal Province and educated at the Bethune College in Calcutta, graduating in 1917.

She stood first among the girls and was awarded the 'Padmabati Gold Medal' along with a cash price of Rs.

100 on 2 October 1917 by the department of English.

Her father was Girischandra Nag.

He was the tutor of Subhas Chandra Bose.

She fought with university authorities and became the first woman to be admitted to the University of Dhaka and earned her M.A. degree.

Co-education was not permitted in Dhaka University.

The then Vice Chancellor Philip Hartog gave a special permission for her admission.

She threw herself into social work and education for girls, starting the second girls school in Dhaka.

She encouraged girls learning skills and receiving vocational training and emphasized the need for girls to learn martial arts to defend themselves.

Over the years, she set up a number of schools and institutes for women.

1921

She contacted Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose when he was leading the relief action after the 1921 Bengal floods.

Leela Nag, then a student of the Dhaka University, was instrumental in forming the Dhaka Women's Committee and, in that capacity, raised donations and relief goods to help Netaji.

1923

Leela Nag formed a rebellion organization in December 1923 called Deepali Sangha (Dipali Sangha) in Dhaka where combat training were given.

Pritilata Waddedar took courses from there.

She took part in the Civil Disobedience Movement and was imprisoned for six years.

1931

In 1931, she began publishing Jayasree, the first magazine edited, managed, and wholly contributed by women writers.

It received the blessings of many eminent personalities including Rabindranath Tagore, who suggested its name.

1938

In 1938, she was nominated by Congress President, Subhas Chandra Bose to the National Planning Committee of the Congress.

1939

In 1939 she married Anil Chandra Roy.

On Bose's resignation from the Congress, the couple joined him in the Forward Bloc.

1941

In 1941, when there was a serious outburst of communal rioting in Dhaka, she along with Sarat Chandra Bose formed the Unity Board and National Service Brigade.

1942

In 1942, during the Quit India Movement both she and her husband were arrested and her magazine was forced to cease.

1946

On her release in 1946, she was elected to the Constituent Assembly of India.

During the partition violence, she met Gandhi in Noakhali.

Even before Gandhiji reached there, she opened a relief center and rescued 400 women after touring on foot 90 miles in just six days.

After the Partition of India, she ran homes in Calcutta for destitute and abandoned women and tried to help refugees from East Bengal.

From 1946 to 1947, Roy set up seventeen relief camps in Noakhali, following the riots which took place there - activist Suhasini Das worked at one.

1947

In 1947 she founded the Jatiya Mahila Sanghati, a women's organisation in West Bengal.

1960

In 1960 she became the chairwoman of the new party formed with the merger of the Forward Bloc (Subhasist) and the Praja Socialist Party but was disappointed with its working.

After two years she retired from active politics.

1962

The letters reveal, that Leela Roy came in touch with Bhagwanji in 1962, at Neemsar, Uttar Pradesh.

1970

She stayed in touch with him till her death in 1970, and kept providing for him.

She died in June 1970, after a prolonged illness.

1985

Leela Roy's letters were recovered from the items of an ascetic named Bhagwanji, who died in Faizabad in 1985.

2008

On December 22, 2008, The Vice President, Shri.

Mohammad Hamid Ansari, the Speaker, Lok Sabha, Shri Somnath Chatterjee, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Shri L. K. Advani were present during unveiling of Leela Roy's portrait in Central Hall of Indian parliament.