Subodh Roy was born in 1915 to a rich family at
Chittagong in erstwhile-undivided
Bengal. At the age of 14, he was the youngest participant in the
Chittagong armoury raid in 1930-31 under the direction of the revolutionary leader
Surya Sen (Masterda). Roy was in the first batch to be sentenced. Subodh Roy made major scholarly contributions to the history of the
communist movement. After conducting research in the
National Archives, he edited a book titled "Communism in India: Unpublished Documents". ==Popular culture==