Kiran Shankar Roy

Kiran Shankar Roy
কিরণ শংকর রায়
West Bengal Department of Home and Hill Affairs Home Minister (Police and Jails)
In office
7 May 1948 – 20 February 1949
Governors‑General
PremierBidhan Chandra Roy
Preceded byPosition established
Personal details
Born(1891-10-25)25 October 1891
Teota, Dacca District, Bengal, British India
Died20 February 1949(1949-02-20) (aged 57)
Calcutta, West Bengal, Dominion of India
Citizenship
  • British India (1891–1947)
  • Pakistan (1947–1948)
  • India (1948–1949)
Political partyIndian National Congress
Other political
affiliations
SpousePadma Roy
ChildrenKalyan Roy
RelativesRaja Shyama Sankar
Parbati Sankar Roy Choudhury
Tapan Raychaudhuri (nephew)
Kumar Sankar Ray (cousin)
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Lincolns Inn (did not complete)
Occupation
  • Professor
  • minister
  • writer
  • freedom fighter
  • barrister
Known forUnited Bengal proposal

Kiran Shankar Roy, also credited as Kiron Sankar Roy (Bengali: কিরণ শংকর রায় Kiy-ron Shan-kor Roi; 25 October 1891 – 20 February 1949) was an Indian Bengali politician, academic, and freedom fighter. He was one of the leading figures of the Swaraj Party in the anti-British independence movement of the Indian subcontinent and one-time colleague of Subhas Chandra Bose and associate of Sarat Chandra Bose. He was one of Bengal's big five prominent Congress leaders during the two decades 1920s and 1940s. Roy was also a Leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party in the Bengal Assembly[1][2]

  1. ^ edited by Subodh Chandra Sengupta and Anjali Basu, সংসদ বাঙালি চরিতাভিধান (1976), Part I, সাহিত্য সংসদ, কলকাতা, আগস্ট ২০১৬, পৃষ্ঠা ১৩৯, ISBN 978-81-7955-135-6
  2. ^ "Speech by the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee on the Occasion of the Valedictory Ceremony of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations (1937 to 2012) of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly". President of India.