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  1. Jun 24, 2024 · S omewhere in Professor Nico Slates compelling book on Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay is a story of how, touring South India in her capacity as Chairperson of the All India Handicrafts Board, she learnt of a community of handloom weavers in a remote village about to abandon their craft.

  2. Jun 20, 2024 · Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903–1988), remembered as a trailblazer, was not only a prominent socialist, anticolonial, and antiracist activist but also a tireless champion of women’s rights and a...

  3. Jun 28, 2024 · This biography of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, a woman who imagined a future for her country, is a story that is both old and new. Published - June 28, 2024 09:01 am IST. Urvashi Butalia.

  4. 4 days ago · In reviews, we read biographies of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and Soumya Swaminathan, and new novels by Colm Tóibín and Saikat Majumdar. We read a retrospective of the work of C.J. Sansom, ...

  5. Jun 30, 2024 · The Kamaladevi whose portrait Slate draws, emerges as a many faceted, complex and often contradict­ory person who engaged with all of these. Born to privilege, she developed a critique of class and caste discrimina­tion in Indian society early on, which stayed with her as she transforme­d into a socialist and a nationalis­t.

  6. Jun 19, 2024 · While Kamaladevi — an Indian pro-independence activist whom people call by her first name — could have easily identified herself as not Black, she chose not to. She believed that all power struggles were intertwined, making her a student of intersectionality long before scholars coined the term.

  7. 4 days ago · In reviews, we read biographies of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and Soumya Swaminathan, and new novels by Colm Tóibín and Saikat Majumdar. We read a retrospective of the work of C.J. Sansom, ...