Sarala Roy

Sarala Roy
Born	26 November 1859 Kolkata, British India
Died	29 June 1946
Occupation	Social worker
Spouse(s)	Prasanna Kumar Roy

Sarala Roy (Bengali: সরলা রায় Shôrola Rae) was an educationist and is remembered as founder of the Gokhale Memorial School at Kolkata (previously known as Calcutta), at present the capital of the east Indian state of West Bengal.

She was daughter of the renowned Brahmo reformer Durga Mohan Das, sister of S.R.Das, Abala Bose and Sailabala Das, and cousin of Chittaranjan Das and Sudhi Ranjan Das (Chief Justice of India). She belonged to the famous , Dhaka, now in Bangladesh. She was married to Dr. P.K.Roy, the first Indian to become principal of Presidency College, Kolkata.Charulata Mukherjee, her daughter was mother of Renuka Ray, a Union Minister, Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, and Prasanta Mukherjee, and thus were her grandchildren.

Along with her husband she used to stay or visit regularly Hazaribagh, which had a small Brahmo community.

She was amongst the early students of Banga Mahila Vidyalaya and Bethune School (established by Bethune) and devoted her life to the cause of women's education. She established a girls' school and a mahila samiti (organisation of women) at Dhaka, when she lived there with her husband. On her return to Kolkata she was a member of Swarnakumari Devi's "Sakhi Samiti". She inspired women from aristocratic families to participate in dance dramas. Rabindranath Tagore composed his dance-drama Mayar Khela at her request and it was first staged at Bethune School.

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