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Kamini Roy (12 October 1864 – 27 September 1933) was a Bengali people poet, social worker and feminist in British India. She was the first woman honours graduate in British India.
Nisith Chandra Sen, her brother, was a renowned barrister in the Calcutta High Court, and later the Mayor of Calcutta while her sister Jamini Sen was the house physician of the Nepalese royal family and the first female Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. In 1894, she married Kedarnath Roy.
In a Bengali essay titled The Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge she wrote,
In 1921, she was one of the leaders, along with Kumudini Basu and Mrinalini Sen, of the Bangiya Nari Samaj, an organization formed to fight for woman's suffrage. The Bengal Legislative Council granted limited suffrage to women in 1925, allowing Bengali women to exercise their right for the first time in the 1926 Indian general election. She was a member of the Female Labour Investigation Commission (1922–23).
Calcutta University honoured her with the Jagattarini Gold Medal.
On 12 October 2019, Google commemorated Roy with a Google Doodle on her 155th birth anniversary. The accompanying write up started with her quote, "Why should a woman be confined to home and denied her rightful place in society?"
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