1. Leela Roy was a leftist Indian woman politician and reformer, and a close associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
15 Facts About Leela Roy
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Leela Roy was born in Goalpara, Assam to Girish Chandra Nag, who was a deputy magistrate, and her mother was Kunjalata Nag.
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Leela Roy was the first female student of Dhaka University.
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Leela Roy 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.
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Leela Roy stood first among the girls and was awarded the 'Padmabati Gold Medal' along with a cash price of Rs.
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Leela Roy threw herself into social work and education for girls, starting the second girls school in Dhaka.
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Leela Roy encouraged girls learning skills and receiving vocational training and emphasized the need for girls to learn martial arts to defend themselves.
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Leela Roy contacted Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose when he was leading the relief action after the 1921 Bengal floods.
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Leela Roy Nag formed a rebellion organization in December 1923 called Deepali Sangha in Dhaka where combat training were given.
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Leela Roy took part in the Civil Disobedience Movement and was imprisoned for six years.
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From 1946 to 1947, Leela Roy set up seventeen relief camps in Noakhali, following the riots which took place there - activist Suhasini Das worked at one.
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Leela Roy's letters were recovered from the items of an ascetic named Bhagwanji, who died in Faizabad in 1985.
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The letters reveal, that Leela Roy came in touch with Bhagwanji in 1962, at Neemsar, Uttar Pradesh.
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Leela Roy stayed in touch with him till her death in 1970, and kept providing for him.
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Leela Roy died in June 1970, after a prolonged illness.