Sibnarayan Ray
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M.N. Roy was an outstanding intellectual-activist of the first half of the twentieth century. He had few peers in the diversity and richness of his revolutionary experience. He took an active and leading part in revolutionary movements in India, Mexico, the Soviet Union, and China. Roy was a political contemporary and colleague of stalwarts like Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Bukharin, Zinoviev, and Borodin. The vicissitudes of Roy's life were ...
M.N. Roy was an outstanding intellectual-activist of the first half of the twentieth century. He had few peers in the diversity and richness of his revolutionary experience. He took an active and leading part in revolutionary movements in India, Mexico, the Soviet Union, and China. Roy was a political contemporary and colleague of stalwarts like Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Bukharin, Zinoviev, and Borodin. The vicissitudes of Roy's life were ...
M.N. Roy was an outstanding intellectual-activist of the first half of the twentieth century. He had few peers in the diversity and richness of his revolutionary experience. He took an active and leading part in revolutionary movements in India, Mexico, the Soviet Union, and China. Roy was a political contemporary and colleague of stalwarts like Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Bukharin, Zinoviev, and Borodin. The vicissitudes of Roy's life were ...
An outstanding international personality of the modern age, M.N. Roy (1887-1954) had a leading role in revolutionary movements in India, Mexico, the middle east, the Soviet Union, Indonesia and China. Like Marx he was both an activist and a philosopher; in fact, according to Tan Ping-Shan, Lenin called him "the Oriental Marx". He tried to organise an armed insurrection in India in 1915; founded the Communist Party of Mexico (1919) and the emigre ...
M.N. Roy (1887-1954) was a unique figure of the 20th century who took a leading part in revolutionary movements in four continents. Having joined the underground revolutionary movement in Bengal at the age of eighteen he tried with others to organize an armed insurrection against the British during the first world war. When this attempt failed he went in search of arms to Indonesia, Japan, Korea, China and the United States and eventually landed in Mexico. ...
Rabindranath Tagore, the greatest figure of the Indian renaissance, was in his life and works the finest embodiment of the humanist ideal of I’uomo universale, the universal man. Many were the spheres of creativity which he brought within his domain and in which he excelled. He left for his countrymen and the world a cultural heritage which in its inexhaustible reachness of meaning continues, even sixty years after his death, to invite fresh explorations and ...
In the already published first two volumes (1998 ; 2002) of this masterly and authoritative biography Professor Ray had traced in great detail. M.N. Roy's extraordinary career from his early life as a revolutionary nationalist to his middle period when he founded the Communist Parties of Mexico and of India (in exile) and rose to be the most outstanding non-Caucasian leader of the Communist International. The second volume closed with an in-depth study of Roy's ...
The renaissance ushered in the modern age. Its spirit expressed itself creatively in a hundred ways--in literature and the arts, philosophy and the sciences, economics and politics, in living styles and social organisation. Its achievements have been phenomenal. Nevertheless, the age has also been greatly troubled by contradictions and setbacks, problems and disorders, wars and revolutionary upheavals and today it faces a global crisis of unprecedented magnitude. ...
In the three earlier volumes of this definitive biography (Vol. I, 1998; II, 2002; III, 2005) Professor Ray had presented in ample and carefully checked detail the first three successive phases in the phenomenal career of M.N. Roy as a revolutionary and a theorist of revolution up to 1939. Drawing upon previously unexplored archival sources preserved in public and private collections at Kolkata and New Delhi, Stanford and New York, Mexico and Moscow, Berlin, ...