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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian politician}}<br />
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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name = Subodh Roy<br />
|image = Subodh roy.jpg<br />
|order1 =<br />
|nationality = [[Bengali people|Bengali]], [[India]]n<br />
|religion = <br />
|birth_date = 1915<br />
|birth_place = [[Chittagong District]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal Province]], [[British India]] (Now [[Bangladesh]])<br />
|death_date = 26 August 2006<br />
|death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[India]]<br />
|profession = [[Indian independence movement]] activist, [[Revolutionist]]<br />
|party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Subodh Roy''' (1915 – 26 August 2006)<ref name="hinduonnet1">{{cite news|title=Model revolutionary |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=1930-04-18 }}</ref> (also known as Jhunku Roy) was an Indian revolutionary socialist who was influential in the [[Indian independence movement]], and a politician.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Subodh Roy was born in 1915 in a rich family at [[Chittagong]] in erstwhile-undivided [[Bengal]]. At the age of 14, he was the youngest participant in the [[Chittagong armoury raid]] in 1930-31 under the direction of the revolutionary leader [[Surya Sen]] (Masterda). Roy was in the first batch to be sentenced.<ref name="hinduonnet1"/><br />
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After the trial, Subodh Roy was deported to the [[Cellular Jail]] in [[Port Blair]] in 1934.<ref name="hinduonnet1"/><br />
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After the release from jail in 1940, he joined communist politics and became a member of the [[Communist Party of India]]. After the independence, he shifted to [[Calcutta]] and joined as a wholetimer at the Provincial Centre of the Party. After the [[1964 split in the Communist Party of India|split in Communist Party of India]] in 1964, Subodh Roy sided with the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] (CPI(M)). And he was a longstanding member of the [[West Bengal]] state committee of the CPI(M).<ref name="autogenerated2006">{{cite web|url=http://pd.cpim.org/2006/0903/09032006_com%20subodh%20roy.htm |title=Comrade Subodh Roy Passes Away |publisher=Pd.cpim.org |date=2006-09-03 |accessdate=2010-11-01}}</ref><br />
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Subodh Roy made a major scholarly contribution to the history of the [[communist movement]]. After research in the National Archives, he edited a book "Communism in India: Unpublished Documents".<ref name="autogenerated2006"/><br />
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==Popular culture==<br />
Delzad Hilwade played the role of young Subodh Roy(Jhunku) while Vijay Varma played his older self in [[Bedabrata Pain]]'s film [[Chittagong (film)|Chittagong]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bedabrata-pain-sacrificed-a-lot-for-chittagong-anurag-kashyap/1013670|title = Bedabrata Pain sacrificed a lot for 'Chittagong': Anurag Kashyap|date = 8 October 2012}}</ref><br />
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