Leela Roy (Aged 70) was born on 2 October 1900 in Goalpara, Assam, India. She was a progressive Indian woman politician and reformer, and a close associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. Despite co-education being prohibited at Dhaka University, she fought with the university authorities and became the first woman to be admitted to the University of Dhaka and earned her M.A. degree.
During the relief efforts led by Netaji Subash Chandra Bose after the 1921 Bengal floods, Leela Nag, then a student of Dhaka University, played a crucial role in forming the Dhaka Women’s Committee and raised donations and relief goods to help Netaji. She took part in the Civil Disobedience Movement and was imprisoned for six years.
In 1931, she started publishing Jaya Sree, the first magazine edited, managed, and wholly contributed by women writers. The magazine received the blessings of many eminent personalities. During the Quit India Movement in 1942, both she and her husband were arrested and her magazine was forced to cease. 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.
In 1947, she founded the Jatiya Mahila Sanghati, a women’s organization in West Bengal. She passed away on 11 June 1970 in Faizabad, Assam, India.
Leela Roy
(1900 – 1970) – (Assam)
Leela Roy (Aged 70) was born on 2 October 1900 in Goalpara, Assam, India. She was a progressive Indian woman politician and reformer, and a close associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. Despite co-education being prohibited at Dhaka University, she fought with the university authorities and became the first woman to be admitted to the University of Dhaka and earned her M.A. degree.
During the relief efforts led by Netaji Subash Chandra Bose after the 1921 Bengal floods, Leela Nag, then a student of Dhaka University, played a crucial role in forming the Dhaka Women’s Committee and raised donations and relief goods to help Netaji. She took part in the Civil Disobedience Movement and was imprisoned for six years.
In 1931, she started publishing Jaya Sree, the first magazine edited, managed, and wholly contributed by women writers. The magazine received the blessings of many eminent personalities. During the Quit India Movement in 1942, both she and her husband were arrested and her magazine was forced to cease. 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.
In 1947, she founded the Jatiya Mahila Sanghati, a women’s organization in West Bengal. She passed away on 11 June 1970 in Faizabad, Assam, India.
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