India’s trailblazing female anthropologist who challenged Nazi race theories
Urmilla Deshpande Irawati Karve’s writings about Indian culture and civilisation are ground-breaking Irawati Karve led a life that stood apart from those around her. Born in British-ruled India, and at a time when women didn’t have many rights or freedoms, Karve did the unthinkable: she pursued higher studies in a foreign country, became a college…