KAMINI ROY

About: 

• Kamini Roy (1864 – 1933) was a leading Bengali poet, social worker and feminist in British India.
  
  
• She was the first woman honours graduate in British India.
  
  
• She published her first collection of verses Alo Chhaya in 1889, and two more books after that. She was president of the Bengali Literary Conference in 1930.
  
  
• In 1921, she was one of the leaders of the Bangiya Nari Samaj, an organization formed to fight for woman's suffrage. The Bengal Legislative Council granted limited suffrage to women in 1925, allowing Bengali women to exercise their right for the first time in the 1926 Indian general election.
  
  
• She was a member of the Female Labour Investigation Commission (1922–23).