Dr Vina Mazumdar was an Indian academic, left-wing activist and feminist.
14 Facts About Vina Mazumdar
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Vina Mazumdar was amongst the first women academics to combine activism with scholarly research in women's studies.
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Vina Mazumdar was secretary of the first Committee on the Status of Women in India that brought out the first report on the condition of women in the country, Towards Equality.
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Vina Mazumdar was the founding Director of the Centre for Women's Development Studies, an autonomous organisation established in 1980, under the Indian Council of Social Science Research.
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Vina Mazumdar was a National Research Professor at the Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi.
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Vina Mazumdar was born in a middle-class Bengali household in Kolkata, the youngest of five children, three boys and two girls.
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Vina Mazumdar did her schooling from St John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School, Kolkata, then studied at Women's College, Banaras Hindu University, and subsequently at Asutosh College, the University of Calcutta, where she became the secretary of the Ashutosh College Girls Students Union.
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Vina Mazumdar started her career as a lecturer of Political Science in Patna University in 1951, soon becoming the first Secretary of the Patna University Teachers' Association.
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Vina Mazumdar was Member Secretary for the Committee on the Status of Women in India.
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Later Mazumdar became Director, Programme of Women's Studies, Indian Council of Social Science Research from 1975 to 80.
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Vina Mazumdar was a founding-member of the Indian Association of Women's Studies.
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Vina Mazumdar published her memoir, Memories of a Rolling Stone in 2010.
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Vina Mazumdar married musician Shankar Mazumdar in 1952, who she met while working in Patna.
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Dr Vina Mazumdar died at a hospital in Delhi on May 30,2013, after a brief illness at the age of 86, and is survived by her children.