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{{short description|American social worker in India}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Irene Mott Bose
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| birth_name = Irene Mott
| birth_date = 18 September 1899
| birth_place = Wooster, Ohio
| death_date = {{death-date and age|22 December 1974|18 September 1899}}
| death_place = Nagpur, India
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| spouse(s) = [[Vivian Bose]]
| parents = [[John Mott]]
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'''Irene Mott Bose''' (18 September 1899 – 22 December 1974), known socially as '''Mrs. Vivian Bose''', was an American-born social worker and writer based in India, and the wife of Indian Supreme Court justice [[Vivian Bose]].

== Early life and education ==
Irene Mott was born in [[Wooster, Ohio]], the daughter of [[John Mott|John R. Mott]] and Leila Ada White Mott. Her father, a Christian pastor and writer, won a [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1946; her mother was a teacher.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1952-09-30|title=Mrs. John Mott, Wife of Religious Leader|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1952/09/30/archives/mrs-john-mott-wife-of-religiousleader.html|access-date=2021-11-26|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Her older brother, [[John Livingstone Mott]], received the [[Kaisar-i-Hind Medal|Kaisar-i‐Hind]] silver medal in 1931, for his work with the [[YMCA]] in India.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1973-07-21|title=John Mott, Headed International Unit|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/21/archives/john-mott-headed-international-unit.html|access-date=2021-11-26|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Her younger brother, [[Frederick Dodge Mott]], worked in healthcare planning in Canada, and was Canada's representative to the [[World Health Organization]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Houston|first=C. Stuart|title=Frederick Dodge Mott|url=https://esask.uregina.ca/entry/mott_frederick_dodge_1904-81.jsp|access-date=2021-11-26|website=The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan|archive-date=26 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211126040032/https://esask.uregina.ca/entry/mott_frederick_dodge_1904-81.jsp|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Irene Mott graduated from [[Vassar College]] in 1922, with further studies in public health and health education at [[Harvard University]] and [[Columbia University]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=1974-12-27|title=Irene Bose, Aided Villages in India|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/27/archives/irene-bose-aided-villagers-in-india.html|access-date=2021-11-25|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

== Career ==
Soon after graduating from college, Mott went to India to work with her brother, who was a missionary among cotton mill workers.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Edmonds Mary D.|url=http://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.4431|title=Wonder and Laughter - Teachers Guide|date=1947|publisher=Silver Burdett Company, New York|pages=82|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> She helped establish a school and a small hospital,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rao|first=Mary C.|date=6 April 1975|title=A Home Away from Home|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qa0IEAAAQBAJ&dq=Mrs.+Vivian+Bose&pg=PA602|journal=Akashvani|volume=11|pages=602}}</ref> and set up a training program for social workers in [[Nagpur]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kabadi Waman P.|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523178|title=Indian Who's Who 1937-38|date=1937|pages=110|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=9 March 1938|title=Social Work in India|page=5|work=Poughkeepsie Miscellany News|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-mar-09-1938-2839965/|access-date=25 November 2021|via=NewspaperArchive.com}}</ref> She and her husband made an anthropological study of a nomadic group, the [[Rabari]] people of [[Kutch district|Kutch]], from 1969 to 1973.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Walter A. Fairservis papers, 1989-1994|url=http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/ead/ead.html?id=EAD_upenn_museum_PUMu2012|access-date=2021-11-26|website=Penn Libraries}}</ref>

Bose wrote two children's books about India, ''The Monkey Tree'' (1956)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bose|first=Irene Mott|url=https://archive.org/details/monkeytree00bose|title=The Monkey Tree|date=1956|publisher=Dodd, Mead|language=en}}</ref> and ''Totaram: The Story of a Village Boy in India Today'' (1933).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wells|first=Mary E.|date=November 1933|title=Asiatic Cousins: Review of ''Totaram''|url=https://newspaperarchives.vassar.edu/?a=d&d=vq19331101-01.2.49&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------|journal=Vassar Quarterly|volume=18|pages=394}}</ref> An excerpt of Totaram was included in an American school reader, ''Roads to Everywhere'' (1961), as "When Totaram Washed the Elephant."<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Russell|first1=David Harris|url=http://archive.org/details/roadstoeverywher00russ|title=Roads to everywhere|last2=Gates|first2=Doris|last3=McCullough|first3=Constance M.|date=1961|publisher=Boston : Ginn|others=Internet Archive}}</ref> She donated some of her father's papers to the Centre of South Asian Studies at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mott Papers|url=https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/papers/item/mott-papers/|access-date=2021-11-25|website=Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge}}</ref> where her papers were also, eventually, archived.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bose Papers|url=https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/papers/item/bose-box-1/|access-date=2021-11-25|website=Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Mott married judge Vivian Bose in 1930.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1 February 1931|title=Class of 1922|page=87|work=Poughkeepsie Vassar Alumnae Quarterly|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-feb-01-1931-2839957/|access-date=25 November 2021|via=NewspaperArchive.com}}</ref> They had a son, Christopher, and a daughter, Leila. When Christopher was a toddler, the Boses traveled as a family by car, with her sister and his sister, from India to Albania.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1 July 1935|title=Class of 1922|page=82|work=Poughkeepsie Vassar Alumnae Quarterly|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-jul-01-1935-2839938/|access-date=25 November 2021|via=NewspaperArchive.com}}</ref> She died in 1974, aged 75 years.<ref name=":0" /> In 2006, a collection of her letters and diaries was published as ''An American Memsahib in India: The Letters and Diaries of Irene Mott Bose 1920-1951''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bose|first=Irene Mott|title=An American memsahib in India : the letters and diaries of Irene Mott Bose, 1920-1951|date=2006|publisher=BACSA|others=Patricia Owens, British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|isbn=978-0-907799-85-6|location=London|oclc=81249146}}</ref> There are 13 folders of photographs and other materials related to Irene and Vivian Bose's studies of the Rabari people in the [[Walter Fairservis]] Papers at [[University of Pennsylvania|Penn Libraries]].<ref name=":1" />

== References ==
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== External links ==

* [https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/CS.aspx?VP3=DamView&VBID=2A3BXZ1T9QV0&SMLS=1&RW=1171&RH=649 A photograph of Christopher and Leila Bose], the children of Irene Mott Bose and Vivian Bose, taken about 1937 (the children were born in 1933 and 1936), in the International Mission Photography Archive at the [[University of Southern California]]
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[[Category:American women children's writers]]
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