Rajmata Benita Roy (born 18 August 1907, date of death unknown) was a Bangladeshi aristocrat, litterateur, diplomat and minister.
Her paternal grandfather, Keshub Chandra Sen, was a Bengali Hindu reformer and Brahmo Samaj leader.
Benita attended Bethune College in Calcutta until age 18, when she married[1] Raja Nalinaksha Roy and became the forty-ninth Rani of the Chakma Circle.
[1] Benita was a close associate of Rabindranath Tagore,[1] under whose patronage she launched[citation needed] the first literary magazine in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
[citation needed] In 1972, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman appointed her as a member of Bangladesh's first delegation to the UN General Assembly.