Atharva karve biography of mahatma
Atharva karve biography of mahatma
महर्षी धोंडो केशव कर्वे - Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve ....
India's pioneering female anthropologist who challenged Nazi race theories
Irawati Karve led a life that stood apart from those around her.
Born in British-ruled India, and at a time when women didn't have many rights or freedoms, Karve did the unthinkable: she pursued higher studies in a foreign country, became a college professor and India's first female anthropologist.
She also married a man of her choosing, swam in a bathing suit, drove a scooter and even dared to defy a racist hypothesis of her doctorate supervisor - a famous German anthropologist named Eugen Fischer.
Her writings about Indian culture and civilisation and its caste system are ground-breaking, and are a part of the curriculum in Indian colleges.
Yet she remains an obscure figure in history and a lot about her life remains unknown.
A new book titled Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve, written by her granddaughter Urmilla Deshpande and academic Thiago Pinto Barbos