Uma Chakravarti

Uma Chakravarti

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Uma Chakravarti Profile

  • Name:
  • Uma Chakravarti
  • Born:
  • August 20, 1941
  • Born / Home Town:
  • Delhi

Uma Chakravarti Biography

Uma Chakravarti is an Indian historian and social activist, best known as a feminist. She is a retired professor from Miranda House, University of Delhi. She is a leading scholar of feminist history-writing in India. She is nicknamed `founding mother' of the Indian women's movement. As a historian she focuses on Buddhism, early Indian history, 19th century history, and contemporary issues. She publishes her research works, and ‘Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism’ and ‘Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai’ are among her contributions.

 

Uma Chakravarti was born in Delhi on 20 August 1941. She is of Kerala origin, as her father hails from Palakkad. He was a civil servant. Her school education was completed at Delhi. Later she moved to Bangalore for her college studies. She completed her law studies from the city and also completed her graduation and post-graduation degrees. After studies she joined Chakravarti joined the Miranda House, affiliated to Delhi University as a faculty and continued with her research works on Indian history and Buddhism. She authored 7 books and over 50 research articles in total.

 

She has also directed two films based on the life history of two people – Subbulakshmi and Mythili Sivaraman. She married Anand Chakravarti, a sociologist and had two kids. Currently she lives in Delhi with her family. She turned a women activist and feminist in the 1970s and has been involved in many movements related to women empowerment. She is also associated with the movement for democratic rights since then, and fought against human rights violations, communal riots and state repression. Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism, Delhi Riots: Three Days in the Life of a Nation, Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai etc are among her published books.

Published: January 10, 2019

Updated: January 10, 2019

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