Mallik was born in Pataldanga suburb of
Calcutta to Prabodh Chandra Basu Mallik. He graduated from
St. Xaviers College Calcutta and
Presidency College Calcutta before enrolling at
Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1900. He returned from England before completing his university studies, He donated Rs 100,000 to support the new
Bengal National College. He also founded the Life of Asia Insurance Company. Mallik's political activities earned him the ire of the Raj, and he was deported in 1908 in the wake of the
Alipore Bomb Conspiracy. Mallik's nationalist work and generous support of the movement earned him the colloquial title of
Raja from his grateful countrymen. In independent India, Wellington Square, the site of his palatial residence, was renamed Raja Subodh Mallik Square, while the road housing
Jadavpur University, which emerged from the Bengal National College, is now called
Raja Subodh Chandra Mallik Road. ==References==