Glossary

M N Roy

MANABENDRA NATH ROY (1887-1954) arrived at Humanism by way of a long journey. Staring as a Comintern Marxist, he became active in the Indian movement for independence. His undogmatic Marxism gradually became less collectivistic and more individualistic, until in 1947 he proclaimed his own interpretation of 'new' or 'radical' Humanism in the form of a manifest with the famous '22 statements'. He then transformed his Radical Democratic Party into a social movement, the Indian Renaissance Movement. Roy was elected IHEU vice-chairman in 1952.