Kamaladevi chattopadhyay biography in kannada

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a freedom fighter, social reformer, and theatre actor who was the driving force behind the post-independence revival of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre. She appeared in the Kannada film Mrichhakatika, based on Sudraka's play of the same name, and the Hindi film Tansen in the early s. She appeared in Shankar Parvati and Dhanna Bhagat in the s. Most Indians are familiar with Kamaladevi, a figure who revived Indian handicrafts and nurtured the majority of India's national institutions dedicated to the promotion of dance, drama, art, theatre, music, and puppetry.

• He was born in Mangalore on April 3, , to Ananthaya Dhareshwar and Girijamma. Her father was Mangalore's District Collector.

• She lost her sister and father when she was a child. Her father's estate passed to his son from his first wife due to the property inheritance laws of the time. Kamaladevi's mother had a difficult time

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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Indian freedom fighter (–)

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (3 April – 29 October ) was an Indian social reformer. She has worked for the promotion of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre in independent India to uplift the socio-economic standard of Indian women. She is the first woman in India to contest in elections from Madras Constituency, but lost.

She has headed the National School of Drama and Sangeet Natak Akademi. In , she was awarded the Sangeet Natak Academy Fellowship, the highest honour conferred by the Sangeet Natak Academy, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.^[1] She was conferred with Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan by Government of India in and respectively. She is known as Hatkargha Maa for her works in handloom sector.

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Early life

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Born in a Saraswat Brahmin family^[2] on 3 April in Mangaluru, Karnataka, Kamaladevi was the fourth and youngest daughter of her parents. H

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by Chinmay Sanjay Bendre and Jayati Chetan Mistry

Abstract:

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was an actor, social reformer, feminist, freedom fighter, reviver of Indian handicrafts, and a global proselytizer of Satyagraha. She was a woman who was years ahead of her time and a romantic renegade. She was possibly the first leader to involve women in the struggle for liberty. Kamaladevi promoted femininity as a common cause while representing India at the International Alliance of Women in Berlin in After India gained its freedom, she worked to rehabilitate North West Frontier refugees and lay the groundwork for Faridabad, a new township on the outskirts of Delhi. She also played a key role in founding organizations like the All India Handicrafts Board and the National School of skådespel among others. The purpose of this article fryst vatten to expose readers to Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, whose contribution is, at