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by Urmilla Deshpande (Author), Thiago Pinto Barbosa (Author)
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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