| Names |
MANABENDRA NATH ROY |
| Date of
Birth |
March 21, 1887 |
| Date of
Death |
January 26, 1954 |
| Identity |
Indian
revolutionary, radical activist and political theorist. |
| Special
Achievements / Events |
- He was born Narendra Nath Bhattacharya.
- He was a founder of the communist parties in Mexico and
India, and a delegate to congresses of the Communist
International and Russia's aide to China.
- Following the rise of Joseph Stalin, Roy left the
mainline communist movement to pursue an independent radical
politics.
- In 1940 Roy was instrumental in the formation of the
Radical Democratic Party, an organisation in which he played
a leading role for much of the decade of the 1940s.
- Roy later moved away from Marxism to become an exponent
of the philosophy of radical humanism.
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