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Indian Lives Series Book 3 – Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay : The Art of Freedom

By Nico Slate

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About the book

In 1947, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay made an unexpected visit to a gloomy government building in New Delhi to confront one of the gravest crises facing the newly independent nation-the fate of the millions of refugees pouring across the borders with Pakistan. She had no official standing, but somehow managed to arrange for a piece of land just outside the capital, where a model town would be built to house 30,000 people. This town is today’s Faridabad.

This is just one of the many efforts-often forgotten-made by an indomitable woman who strove to empower others throughout her life. Born a Saraswat Brahmin in Mangalore, Kamaladevi was a performing artist, a Gandhian, a social reformer, an educationist, an institution builder, a patron of the arts, an author, a visionary. She built bridges across divides decreed by tradition, while establishing her own identity as an Indian woman finding a place for herself in a male-dominated world. Her dream was of an India that was free not just of colonial rule but of the shackles of poverty, caste oppression and gender disparities.

Nico Slate’s new and definitive biography explores the life of Kamaladevi, one of the most inspiring figures of twentieth-century India.

This is the third book in the Indian Lives series, edited and curated by Ramachandra Guha.

Pages: 388

Available in: Hardback

Language: English

Nico Slate

Nico Slate is Professor of History and Head of the Department of History at CarnegieMellon

University. His research focuses on the transnational history of socialmovements in the United

States and South Asia, with a particular focus on the history of strugglesagainst racism and

imperialism. He is the author of four books: Colored Cosmopolitanism:The Shared Struggle for

Freedom in the United States and India (Harvard University Press, 2012), The Prism of Race:

W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson and the Colored World ofCedric Dover

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet:Eating with the World in

Mind (WashingtonUniversity Press, 2019); and Lord Cornwallis Is Dead: The Struggle for

Democracy in the United States and India (Harvard UniversityPress, 2019).

 

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