M.n. roy upsc drishti ias
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With deep gratitude to the editor of ‘The Radical Humanist’, Shri. Mahi Pal Singh, we are presenting collected works by M.N. Roy to our readers.
Manabendra Nath Roy (21 March 1887 – 25 January 1954), born Narendra Nath Bhattacharya, was an Indian revolutionary, radical activist and political theorist. Roy was a founder of the Mexican Communist Party and the Communist Party of India. He was also 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.
Reason, Romanticism, and Revolution Volumes
Fragments of Prisoner’s Diaries
Selected Works of M. N. Roy
Other Books
Other Articles
Memorial Lectures
2023 – MN Roy Memorial Lecture
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The Indian Radical Who Helped Found the Mexican Communist Party
When the Indian nationalist M. N. Roy entered a small Chinese restaurant in 1917’s Mexico City, he just intended to make a new friend in the strange land in which he was exiled. Instead, he would leave his lunch with aging Mexican socialist Adolfo Santibáñez with an idea, creating what would become the first Communist Party outside of Russia — an improbable twist of fate that would propel him to global fame.
Narendra Nath Bhattacharya, later known as M. N. Roy, was born on March 21, 1897, in the village of Arbelia near Calcutta. He joined the revolutionary independence organization Anushilan Samiti at the age of fourteen. Created by the Bengali barrister Pramanath Nath Mitra, the Samiti believed that a nationwide armed struggle was the only salient method to defeat the British Empire.
The outbreak of WWI made the Samiti look to Imperial Germany as a potential ally given their mutual enemy, the British. In 1914, the word came back; Germany was prepared to finance the revolution. Bhattacharya left for Japan in 1915 i
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M. N. Roy
Indian revolutionary and political theorist
M. N. Roy | |
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M. N. Roy | |
| Born | Narendra Nath Bhattacharya (1887-03-21)21 March 1887 Arbelia, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day West Bengal, India) |
| Died | 25 January 1954(1954-01-25) (aged 66) Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education | Jadavpur University, Communist University of the Toilers of the East |
| Occupation(s) | Revolutionary, radical activist, political theorist, philosopher |
| Political party | Jugantar, Communist Party of India, Mexican Communist Party, Radical Democratic Party |
| Movement | Indian Independence movement, Indian revolutionary movement, Hindu–German Conspiracy |
Manabendra Nath Roy (born Narendra Nath Bhattacharya, better known as M. N. Roy; 21 March 1887 – 25 January 1954) was a 20th-century Indian revolutionary, philosopher, radical activist and political theorist. Roy was the founder of the Mexican Communist Party and the Communist Party of India (Tashkent group).
He was also a delegate to the Communist International congresses an
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