Prasanna Kumar Roy

On returning to India, Roy taught at Patna College, Dhaka College, and Presidency College, Kolkata. He was the first Indian to serve as principal of Presidency College, from 1902 to 1905. Thereafter, he became the registrar of the University of Calcutta. On retirement he served as inspector of colleges under the university. He was posted to England for two years as education assistant to the Secretary for India.^[1]

Roy was active in the affairs of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.^[1]

Roy married Sarala, a daughter of Durga Mohan Das.^[1] Sarala was a sister of Abala Bose, wife of scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose; among her cousins were Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das and Sudhi Ranjan Das (later Chief Justice of India).^{[citation needed]}

Roy and Sarala became the parents of a son, Saral Roy, and daughters, Charulata Mukherjee, Kanakalata Roy, Nemima Roy, Dolly Maitland, and Swarnalata Bose. Roy gave his daughter Charulata in marriage to Satish Chandra Mukherjee, the educationist. They became the parents of Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, first Indian Chief of Air Staff; the feminist and politician Renuka Ray; and Prasanta Mukherjee, Chairman of the Railway Board 1957-59.^[4]

Roy and Sarala's daughter Kanakalata Roy married Jatindra Nath Roy OBE ^[5] and one of her grandsons is Bunker Roy, noted social activist and reformer.

His son Saral Ray had a son, Sunil Roy (IFS and ardent environmentalist). Sunil Roy was the Indian Ambassador to Poland and Mexico, High Commissioner to Nigeria and the Indian Consul General in New York City ^[6]

Roy died in 1932 at Hazaribagh.^[1]