Jan 11, 2015

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, First Indian Woman Representative to Geneva Conference of Educators - 1929

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Mrs. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay famous south Indian woman leader who has been selected to represent Indian Women's Association at forthcoming session of World Federation of Teachers at Geneva in June. She will visit Denmark in August in same capacity.

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (3 April 1903 – 29 October 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 upliftment of the socio-economic standard of Indian women by pioneering the co-operative movement.
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