Title: Irawati Karve - Biography (Edition1): The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve
Publisher: Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited
Publication Date: 2024
Language: English
ISBN 10: 9354478476
ISBN 13: 9789354478475
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Brand New
Weight: 0.38 kilograms

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In 1927, when Irawati Karve, aged twenty-two, arrived in Berlin to do her

doctoral studies at the Friedrich Wilhelm University, she was faced with a

dilemma. As a woman of colour, the subject of her thesis was to prove her

supervisor Dr Eugen Fischer's theory of the superiority of the European

race over people of colour, based on the measurement of their skulls. After

examining 149 'white' skulls from Germany and 'non-white' skulls from

German colonies in East Africa, Irawati came to the opposite conclusion: the

shape of the human skull did not prove racial superiority. Fischer's theory was

later discredited, but at the time, it took courage to present the paper to him and

it nearly cost Irawati her PhD.

Courage and a pioneering spirit continued to be her hallmarks on her return

to India. At a time when such field trips were difficult if not dangerous, she

travelled to the Adivasi areas in Coorg, Western Maharashtra, Assam, Kerala

and Bihar. Her research resulted in two seminal works, Kinship Organisation in

India and Hindu Society.

In 1968, she won the Sahitya Akademi Award for her book of essays on the

Mahabharata, Yuganta. Irawati's belief that the Mahabharata was not just an epic,

but a historical record, earned her some criticism from her peers at the time, but

Yuganta remains a classic to this day.

As the daughter-in-law of the reformist and feminist thinker, Maharshi Dhondo

Karve, adored wife of Dinkar Karve, and privileged daughter of two families-

her own parents, Ganesh and Bhagirathi Karmarkar, and her adoptive family,

R.P. Paranjpye and his wife, Saitai-Irawati's personal life was as rich and

colourful as her professional one.

In this biography like none other, writer Urmilla Deshpande, Irawati's

granddaughter, and academic researcher Thiago Pinto Barbosa, have created

an intimate, captivating portrait of Irawati Karve, the anthropologist and

philosopher, and Irawati, the woman, wife and mother.

As author and Joint Director, JLF, Namita Gokhale says, 'Irawati Karve stood

tall with the tallest of her generation. This biography is a beacon for those who

want to understand the Indian way-an inspirational story of an iconic figure.'

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