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          Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve, written by Urmilla Deshpande, Irawati Karve's granddaughter, and Brazilian anthropologist Thiago..

          Irawati Karve

          Indian sociologist and writer (1905–1970)

          Irawati Karve (15 December 1905[1] – 11 August 1970) was an Indian sociologist, anthropologist, educationist and writer from Maharashtra, India.

          Irawati Karve, India's first female anthropologist, led a fascinating life that challenged patriarchal norms.

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        2. Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve, written by Urmilla Deshpande, Irawati Karve's granddaughter, and Brazilian anthropologist Thiago.
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          5. She was one of the students of G.S. Ghurye, the founder of sociology in India. She has been regarded as the first female Indian sociologist.[2]

          Early life and education

          Irawati Karve was born on 15 December 1905 to a wealthy Chitpavan Brahmin[3] family and was named after the Irrawaddy River in Burma where her father, Ganesh Hari Karmarkar, was working for the Burma Cotton Company.

          She 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. She then obtained a Dakshina Fellowship to study sociology under G.

          S. Ghurye at Bombay University, obtaining a master's degree in 1928 with a thesis on the subject of her own caste titled The Chitpavan