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Dilip Roy
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Indian musician
Other names
Dilip Kumar Roy
Place of birth
Date of arrival to Britain
Location(s)
CB3 0DG
United Kingdom
Place of death
Pune, India
Date of time spent in Britain
1919–22
About
Dilip Kumar Roy was a prominent Indian musician. He was the son of playwright and musician Dwijendra Lal Roy. He is known for synthesizing western and Indian classical music.
Roy studied at Fitzwilliam Hall, Cambridge, at the same time as his friend Subhas Chandra Bose. He took the mathematics tripos but also took music options. He then studied German and Italian music on the continent. He met Romain Rolland in Switzerland, who was a great admirer of him. He was also admired by many Indians, including M. K. Gandhi.
In 1928 Roy joined Sri Aurobindo's ashram in Pondicherry and stayed there until 1950. In 1959 he founded the Hari Krishna mandir in Pune, where he died in 1980.
Subhas Chandra Bose, G. Lowes Dickinson, Aurobindo Ghose, Herman Hesse, S. Radhakrishnan, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath Tagore.
Among the Great (Bombay: Nalanda, 1945)
The Subhas I Knew (Bombay: Nalanda, 1946)
Eyes of Light (Bombay: Nalanda, 1948)
Pilgrims of the Stars (New York: Macmillan, 1953)
Devi, Indira, Fragrant Memories (Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1983)
Fay, Peter Ward, The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995)
Patel, Amrita Paresh, Dilip Kumar Roy: A Lover of Light among Luminaries (Ahmedabad: L. D. Institute of Indology, 2002)
Overman Foundation, Kolkata, http://overmanfoundation.org/dilip-kumar-roy-a-pictorial-homage-on-the-occasion-of-his-125th-birth-anniversary/
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© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
