A Passionate Life: Writings by and on Kamladevi Chattopadhyay - Chattopadhyay, Kamaladevi
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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman--a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discussions of and studies on Indian women and independence. But in more mainstream histories she remains relatively unknown.             A Passionate Life brings together for the first time a collection of Kamaladevi's writings on the subjects closest to her heart. These essays include a close look at the lives of tribal peoples in India, the sustaining…mehr

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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman--a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discussions of and studies on Indian women and independence. But in more mainstream histories she remains relatively unknown.             A Passionate Life brings together for the first time a collection of Kamaladevi's writings on the subjects closest to her heart. These essays include a close look at the lives of tribal peoples in India, the sustaining of handicrafts and handicraft workers, and issues of history. In doing so, the volume questions not only our methods of writing and recovering history--which leave out lives as important as hers--but also shows how the surfacing of histories like Kamaladevi's can enrich, expand, and add nuance to our understanding of the making of modern India. Crucial new essays and commentary by the editors accompany Kamaladevi's writings.  
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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903-1988) was an Indian social reformer and freedom fighter. She is most remembered for her contribution to the Indian independence movement; for being the driving force behind the renaissance of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre in independent India; and for the upliftment of Indian women. Vinay Lal is Professor of History and Asian American Studies at UCLA. He writes widely on the history and culture of colonial and modern India, popular and public culture in India (especially cinema), historiography, the politics of world history, the Indian diaspora, global politics, contemporary American politics, the life and thought of Mohandas Gandhi, Hinduism, and the politics of knowledge systems. Ellen Carol DuBois is a Professor of History at UCLA. She was an early activist in feminism's second wave, working during her graduate school years with the Chicago Women's Liberation Union. She is the author and editor of many books in women's history, including the anthology Unequal Sisters: A Reader in Multicultural U.S. Women's History and Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents.