https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=79.65.69.78Bharatpedia - User contributions [en]2026-08-02T01:54:09ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.6https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maya_Ray&diff=256547Maya Ray2021-08-03T18:11:53Z<p>79.65.69.78: Correct DoB to 9th February 1927, based on information from Maya Ray's sister, who is also my (ex-)mother-in-law.</p>
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{{Infobox Indian politician<br />
| name = Maya Ray<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|2|9|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Dibrugarh]], [[Assam Province|Assam]], [[British India]]<ref>{{cite book|title=The States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JN8iAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=19 January 2019|year=1971|publisher=India News and Feature Alliance.|page=21}}</ref><br />
| residence = Kolkata<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|3|11|1927|2|9|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]<br />
| office = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]<br />
| constituency = [[Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency)|Raiganj]], ([[West Bengal]])<br />
| term_start = 1972<br />
| term_end= 1977<br />
| predecessor =[[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]]<br />
| successor =[[Md. Hayat Ali]]<br />
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| party =[[Indian National Congress]]<br />
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| spouse = [[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]]<br />
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''' Maya Ray''' was a lawyer and an Indian politician from [[West Bengal]]. She was elected in a [[Bye election]] to the [[Lok Sabha]], the lower house of the [[Parliament of India]] from [[Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency)|Raiganj]], West Bengal, in 1972.<br />
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==Career==<br />
The [[Bye election]] was necessitated after her husband [[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]] resigned the seat after he became the [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]] in 1972.<ref name="PeopleSabha1976">{{cite book|author1=India. Parliament. House of the People|author2=India. Parliament. Lok Sabha|title=Lok Sabha Debates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ulvVAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=13 June 2016|year=1976|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat.|page=38}}</ref><ref name="Bagchi2005">{{cite book|author=Jasodhara Bagchi|title=The Changing Status of Women in West Bengal, 1970-2000: The Challenge Ahead|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIuHAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA181|accessdate=13 June 2016|date=7 January 2005|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-81-321-0178-9|pages=181–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Indian Recorder and Digest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JnfiAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=13 June 2016|year=1972|page=31}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Asian Recorder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sQMuAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=14 June 2016|volume=18|year=1972|page=viii}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.elections.in/west-bengal/parliamentary-constituencies/raiganj.html | title=Raiganj Lok Sabha Elections | publisher=Elections.in | accessdate=14 June 2016}}</ref><br />
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As a lawyer she was once referred to as "a noted barrister and former elected official" by the late [[Thomas J. Manton]], a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]].<br />
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==Death==<br />
She died of [[kidney failure]] on 11 March 2013, two and a quarter years after her husband died.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130312/jsp/nation/story_16662098.jsp#.UUHgTVd0dCw |title=Nation Briefs |work=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]] |date=12 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815131546/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1130312/jsp/nation/story_16662098.jsp#.UUHgTVd0dCw |archive-date=15 August 2018 |accessdate=3 September 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Lok Sabha members from West Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:5th Lok Sabha members]]<br />
[[Category:2013 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:1927 births]]<br />
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from West Bengal]]<br />
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