The Art of Freedom: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India by Slate, Nico

The Art of Freedom: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903-1988) was a prominent socialist, anticolonial and antiracist activist, champion of women's rights, and advocate...
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Author: Nico Slate
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The Art of Freedom: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India by Slate, Nico

The Art of Freedom: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India

CHF 41.19

The Art of Freedom: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India

CHF 41.19
Author: Nico Slate
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903-1988) was a prominent socialist, anticolonial and antiracist activist, champion of women's rights, and advocate for the arts and crafts. Defying the borders of gender, nation, and race, her efforts spanned social movements and played a leading role in the creation of modern India and the development of the Global South. In The Art of Freedom, Nico Slate showcases new archival materials to document Kamaladevi's campaign to become the first woman elected to provincial office; her confrontation with Gandhi that helped open the salt protests of 1930 to women; her leadership of the All India Women's Conference and the Congress Socialist Party; her pioneering work with refugees during the Partition of India in 1947; the major impact she had on the arts in postcolonial India; and her own career on the stage and screen. Slate also draws upon underexplored details from her personal life, providing new context for her experiences as a child widow, her remarriage to the mercurial actor/poet Harin Chattopadhyay, and her divorce (among the first civil divorces in modern India). Taken as a whole, Kamaladevi's life offers a uniquely revealing vantage point on the making of modern India--a vantage point that centers the interconnections between struggles often seen as distinct, and that reminds us of the full promise of Indian democracy.

Author: Nico Slate
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 04/30/2024
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780822948209

About the Author
Nico Slate is professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. His research examines struggles against racism and imperialism in the United States and India. His most recent book is Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race.

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