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'''Kamala Sunderrao Kulkarni Dongerkery''' (1909–1992) was an Indian [[social worker]], art historian, author, and [[cultural historian]]. She wrote books on [[Embroidery of India|Indian embroidery]], [[Indian jewellery|Indian jewelry]] and [[Indian toys]]. She also wrote an autobiographical account of her life, ''On the wings of time'' (1968).<ref name=VyasSharma>Anju Vyas and Ratna Sharma, [https://www.cwds.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Indian_women_biographies.pdf Indian Women: Biographies and Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329030125/https://www.cwds.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Indian_women_biographies.pdf |date=2023-03-29 }}, 2013, p.14-15.</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Kamala Dongerkery was originally from [[Dharwar]]. She was married at the age of eleven,<ref name="Park2020">{{cite book|author=Margaret E. Derrett|editor=Richard Park|title=Change and the Persistence of Tradition in India: Five Lectures|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlP7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35|year=2020|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=978-0-472-03843-5|page=35|chapter=The Indian Novel Written in English - A Mirror of India?}}</ref> to the educationist [[S. R. Dongerkery]] (born 1898), later Vice Chancellor of [[Marathwada University]]. In her autobiography she recounted how she faced criticism from her mother-in-law for failing to produce a male child.<ref>Shubha Tiwari, [https://www.boloji.com/articles/14200/lesser-known-important-autobiographies Lesser Known Important Autobiographies], boloji.com, 23 March 2013. Accessed 20 January 2021.</ref><br />
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Inspired by [[Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya]], she began writing on the history of [[Indian clothing]], as well as of other traditional arts and crafts. She was part of a revival of interest in Indian craft, motivated by aesthetic appreciation of its distinctiveness rather than as a Gandhian political statement.<ref name="Tarlo1996">{{cite book|author=Emma Tarlo|title=Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8wyM5heEc9gC&pg=PA322|year=1996|publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers|isbn=978-1-85065-176-5|pages=322–3}}</ref><br />
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She was a member of the [[All India Women's Conference]] and the National Council of Women. She was also a founder and chair of Balak Vrina Education Society, and on the [[Central Board of Film Certification|Board of Film Censors]].<ref name=VyasSharma/><br />
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==Works==<br />
* ''The Indian sari''. New Delhi: All India Handicrafts Board, 1950.<br />
* ''The romance of Indian embroidery''. Bombay: Thacker, 1951.<br />
* ''A journey through toyland''. Bombay: Popular Book Depot, 1954.<br />
* ''Traditional embroidery of India''. New Delhi: All India Handicrafts Board, 1961.<br />
* ''On Wings of Time''. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, 1968.<br />
* ''Jewelry and personal adornment in India''. New Delhi: Indian Council for Cultural Relations, 1970.<br />
* ''Interior decoration in India past and present''. Bombay: Taraporevala, 1973.<br />
* ''India, yours and mine''. New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1976.<br />
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