Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The Romantic Rebel

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This biography chronicles the extraordinary life of glamorously beautiful rebel who was also known as the culture queen of India.  One of the most outstanding women of modern India, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay put her name down in Indian history as an intrepid freedom fighter and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, as a crusader of women’s rights, and as the rejuvenator of indigenous arts and crafts that had languished under colonial rule.  For half of century, from the ’30s to the time of her death in 1988, she strode the national scene like a colossus, but spurned high office and political rewards. She could be fearlessly rebellious when the occasion demanded, and also supremely romantic and compassionate at the same time. She was honored with the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay International Award for her contribution to community work, the UNESCO award for crafts promotion, and the Padma Vibushan – the second highest civilian award of the Government of India – for her writings.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sakuntala Narasimhan

Sakuntala Narasimhan is a well-known columnist-writer with nine books to her credit. She won the Chameli Devi Award of the Media Foundation for Outstanding Woman Journalist of the year in 1983, and K S Aiyer Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on Socially Relevant issues in 1992. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology and taught a course on women and development at Virginia State University, USA, on a Fullbright assignment in 1990. Her pother interests are classical music in which she has won ten gold medals.

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Title
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The Romantic Rebel
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8120721203
Length
240p.
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