Irawati Karve was a pioneering Indian sociologist, anthropologist, educationist and writer from Maharashtra, India.
14 Facts About Irawati Karve
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Irawati Karve has been claimed to be the first female Indian Sociologist.
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Irawati Karve was born on 15 December 1905 to a wealthy Chitpavan Brahmin family and was named after the Irrawaddy River in Burma where her father, Ganesh Hari Karmarkar, was working for the Burma Cotton Company.
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Irawati Karve attended the girls boarding school Huzurpaga in Pune from the age of seven and then studied philosophy at Fergusson College, from which she graduated in 1926.
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Somewhat contradictorily, Dhondo Irawati Karve, opposed Dinkar's decision to send her to Germany for further studies.
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Irawati Karve studied at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, was awarded a doctorate two years later and then returned to her husband in India, where the couple lived a rather unconventional life less bound by the social strictures that were common at that time.
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Irawati Karve's husband was an atheist and she explained her own visits to the Hindu shrine to Vithoba at Pandharpur as out of deference for "tradition" rather than belief.
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Irawati Karve worked as an administrator at SNDT Women's University in Bombay from 1931 to 1936 and did some postgraduate teaching in the city.
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Irawati Karve moved to Pune's Deccan College as a Reader in sociology in 1939 and remained there for the rest of her career.
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Irawati Karve had wide-ranging academic interests, including anthropology, anthropometry, serology, Indology and palaeontology as well as collecting folk songs and translating feminist poetry.
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Irawati Karve founded the department of anthropology at what was then Poona University.
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Irawati Karve served for many years as the head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Deccan College, Pune.
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Irawati Karve presided over the Anthropology Division of the National Science Congress held in New Delhi in 1947.
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Irawati Karve provides various possible reasons why Karve's effect has been less than that of people such as Ghurye and Louis Dumont.