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	Vina Mazumdar was born in a middle-class [[Bengali people\|Bengali]] household in [[Kolkata]], the youngest of five children, three boys and two girls. Her father, Prakash Majumdar, was an engineer. Her uncle was the noted historian [[R.C. Majumdar]] (1888–1980).<ref name=hin12/> She did her schooling from [[St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School]], [[Kolkata]], then studied at Women's College, [[Banaras Hindu University]], and subsequently at [[Asutosh College]], the [[University of Calcutta]], where she became the secretary of the Ashutosh College Girls Students Union. While at the college, she organised a meeting in the support of Rama Rao Committee which recommended expansion the inheritance rights for daughters through crucial [[Modern Hindu law\|Hindu Law]] Reform.<ref name=hin12/> In 1947, just after independence, she went to [[St Hugh's College, Oxford]], where she completed her graduation in 1951. She returned to [[Oxford University]] in 1960 and received her [[D.Phil.]] there in 1962.		Vina Mazumdar was born in a middle-class [[Bengali people\|Bengali]] household in [[Kolkata]], the youngest of five children, three boys and two girls. Her father, Prakash Majumdar, was an engineer. Her uncle was the noted historian [[R.C. Majumdar]] (1888–1980).<ref name=hin12/> She did her schooling from [[St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School]], [[Kolkata]], then studied at Women's College, [[Banaras Hindu University]], and subsequently at [[Asutosh College]], the [[University of Calcutta]], where she became the secretary of the Ashutosh College Girls Students Union. While at the college, she organised a meeting in the support of Rama Rao Committee which recommended expansion of the inheritance rights for daughters through crucial [[Modern Hindu law\|Hindu Law]] Reform.<ref name=hin12/> In 1947, just after independence, she went to [[St Hugh's College, Oxford]], where she completed her graduation in 1951. She returned to [[Oxford University]] in 1960 and received her [[D.Phil.]] there in 1962.

	==Career==		==Career==

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| caption = Mazumdar while a student of Asutosh College
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| birth_place = Kolkata, [[British Raj|India]]
| death_place = New Delhi, India
| education = [[D. Phil.]]
| alma_mater = [[Oxford University]]
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| organization = [[Centre for Women's Development Studies]], Delhi
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| occupation = [[women studies]] academic and researcher
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Dr. '''Vina Mazumdar''' (28 March 1927 – 30 May 2013) was an Indian academic, left-wing activist and feminist. A pioneer in [[women's studies]] in India, she was a leading figure of the Indian women's movement. She was amongst the first women academics to combine activism with scholarly research in women's studies. She was secretary of the first Committee on the Status of Women in India that brought out the first report on the condition of women in the country, ''[[Towards Equality]]'' (1974).<ref name=db>[http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55726 Interview with Vina Mazumdar, Global Feminisms Project] [[University of Michigan Library#Deep Blue|Deep Blue]], Michigan University</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/articlepopup.aspx?202376|title=First Anniversary Special Fifty Faces, A Million Reasons: Vina Mazumdar : Gender Activist|date=23 October 1996|publisher=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609071453/http://www.outlookindia.com/articlepopup.aspx?202376|archive-date=9 June 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> She was the founding Director of the [[Centre for Women's Development Studies]] (CWDS), an autonomous organisation established in 1980, under the [[Indian Council of Social Science Research]] (ICSSR). She was a National Research Professor at the Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi.<ref>[http://www.cwds.org/we&ourpeople.htm Our people] Centre for Women's Development Studies, website.</ref>

==Early life and education==
Vina Mazumdar was born in a middle-class [[Bengali people|Bengali]] household in [[Kolkata]], the youngest of five children, three boys and two girls. Her father, Prakash Majumdar, was an engineer. Her uncle was the noted historian [[R.C. Majumdar]] (1888–1980).<ref name=hin12/> She did her schooling from [[St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School]], [[Kolkata]], then studied at Women's College, [[Banaras Hindu University]], and subsequently at [[Asutosh College]], the [[University of Calcutta]], where she became the secretary of the Ashutosh College Girls Students Union. While at the college, she organised a meeting in the support of Rama Rao Committee which recommended expansion the inheritance rights for daughters through crucial [[Modern Hindu law|Hindu Law]] Reform.<ref name=hin12/> In 1947, just after independence, she went to [[St Hugh's College, Oxford]], where she completed her graduation in 1951. She returned to [[Oxford University]] in 1960 and received her [[D.Phil.]] there in 1962.

==Career==
She started her career as a lecturer of Political Science in [[Patna University]] in 1951, soon becoming the first Secretary of the Patna University Teachers' Association.<ref name=hin12/> Later, she taught at [[Berhampur University]], where she was appointed upon the recommendation of Professor [[Bidhu Bhusan Das]], her friend from [[Oxford University]], who was Director of Public Instruction, Odisha, at the time. Subsequently, she joined the [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]] Secretariat, New Delhi as an Education Officer and became a Fellow of the [[Indian Institute of Advanced Studies]], [[Shimla]], for the research project, 'University Education and Social Change in India' (April 1970 – Dec. 1970).<ref name=db/><ref>[http://www.iias.org/earchive_fellows_1.html Fellows of the Institute] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113125414/http://iias.org/earchive_fellows_1.html |date=13 January 2010 }} [[Indian Institute of Advanced Studies]] website.</ref>

She was Member Secretary for the Committee on the Status of Women in India (1971–74). The Committee, appointed by the Government of India in 1971, was reconstituted in 1973 with her, a late entrant, as Member Secretary.<ref>[[#Ag|Agrawal, p. 62]]</ref> The report of the Committee, ''Towards Equality'', highlighted the rise in poverty amongst women in the transition from agrarian to industrial society, as also the decline of sex ratio in India. Eventually, the report became a turning point both for Women's Studies and the women's movement in India.<ref name="to"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Vina Mazumdar, freedom's child|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/vina-mazumdar-freedom-s-child/1123440/0|publisher=Indian Express |date=1 June 2013 |access-date=2 June 2013}}</ref> Later Mazumdar became Director, Programme of Women's Studies, [[Indian Council of Social Science Research]] from 1975 to 80.<ref name=db/><ref>''Emerging State Feminism in India: A Conversation with Vina Mazumdar'', [[International Feminist Journal of Politics]], Volume 9, Issue 1 March 2007 , ''pp. 104 – 111''.</ref> Mazumdar helped organise a meeting to support the recommendations of the Rama Rao Committee on Hindu Law Reform (to expand the inheritance rights of daughters.<ref>{{cite news|title=Remembering Vina Mazumdar|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/remembering-vina-mazumdar/article4765937.ece|access-date=7 December 2013|newspaper=The Hindu|date=7 December 2013}}</ref>

In 1980, she co-founded the Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS), New Delhi and remained its founder-Director from 1980 till her retirement in 1991. CWDS initiated the concept of "action-research" as it organised landless peasant women in [[Bankura district]] of West Bengal.<ref name=hin12/> It soon became an influential institution which impacted the course of women's studies in India.<ref name="to">{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-03-08/india/28147826_1_first-report-middle-class-women-equality|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811061337/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-03-08/india/28147826_1_first-report-middle-class-women-equality|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 August 2011|title=Educated middle class women are selfish |date=8 March 2010|first1=Rema|work=[[The Times of India]]|last1=Nagarajan}}</ref> Through her career, Mazumdar straddled both the scholarship and activism side of women's studies, which she referred as "women's studies movement".<ref>{{cite web |title=Vina Broke The Dichotomy Between Scholarship And Activism |author=Devaki Jain|url=http://tehelka.com/vina-broke-the-dichotomy-between-scholarship-and-activism/ |date=31 May 2013 |publisher=Tehelka |access-date=2 June 2013}}</ref> She was also a founding-member of the Indian Association of Women's Studies (IAWS, founded 1982). Thereafter she was Senior Fellow at CWDS and JP Naik National Fellow, [[ICSSR]] for two years. From 1996 to 2005 she was the Chairperson, Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi.

She published her memoir, [http://www.swb.co.in/store/book/memories-rolling-stone ''Memories of a Rolling Stone''] in 2010. [Reviews: [http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2715/stories/20100730271508000.htm Subhashini Ali: The third factor], Frontline, Volume 27 – Issue 15, 17–30 July 2010 ; [http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9784 Pamela Philipose: Vina Mazumdar's Rolling Story], 30 October 2010; [http://www.timescrest.com/society/vina-mazumdar-the-fighter-2609 Vina Mazumdar, the fighter], Times of India, 5 June 2010]

[[File:Vina 1.jpg|thumb|Vina Mazumdar in 2010]]

==Personal life==
She married musician Shankar Mazumdar in 1952, who she met while working in Patna. Upon her marriage, she changed the spelling of surname from Majumdar (her maiden name) to Mazumdar (her marital name).<ref name=hin12/> The couple had four children - three daughters and a son. One of the daughters was the first wife of [[Sitaram Yechuri]], leader of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]. Dr. Mazumdar died at a hospital in Delhi on May 30, 2013, after a brief illness at the age of 86, and is survived by her children.<ref name=hin12>{{cite news |title=Remembering Vina Mazumdar |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/remembering-vina-mazumdar/article4765937.ece |work=The Hindu |date=30 May 2013 |access-date=2 June 2013}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* ''Education & social change: three studies on nineteenth century India''. Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1972.
* ''Role of rural women in development''. University of Sussex. Institute of Development Studies. Allied Publishers, 1978.
* ''Symbols of power: studies on the political status of women in India''. Allied, 1979.
* ''Women and rural transformation: two studies'' with Rekha Mehra, [[Kunjulekshmi Saradamoni]]. ICSSR. Centre for Women's Development Studies. Pub. Concept, 1983.
* ''Emergence of the Women's Question in India and the Role of Women's Studies''. Centre for Women's Development Studies, 1985.
* ''Khadi and Village Industries Commission''. Centre for Women's Development Studies. 1988.
* ''Peasant Women Organise for Empowerment: The Bankura Experiment''. Centre for Women's Development Studies. 1989.
* ''Women workers in India: studies in employment and status'', with Leela Kasturi, Sulabha Brahme, Renana Jhabvala. ICSSR. Chanakya Publications, 1990. {{ISBN|978-81-70010-73-9}}.
* ''Legislative Measures and Policy Directions for Improving the Lot of Farm Women'', with Kumud Sarma, [[Lotika Sarkar]]. [[Indian Council of Agricultural Research]].
* ''Women and Indian nationalism'', with Leela Kasturi. Vikas Pub. House, 1994. {{ISBN|978-81-70010-73-9}}.
* ''Changing Terms of Political Discourse: Women's Movement in India, 1970s–1990s'', with Indu Agnihotri. [[Economic and Political Weekly]], Vol. XXX No. 29, 4 March 1995
* ''Political Ideology of the Women's Movement's Engagement with Law''. Centre for Women's Development Studies, 2000.
* ''Face to face with rural women: CWDS' search for new knowledge and an interventionist role''. Centre for Women's Development Studies, 2002.
* ''The Mind and the Medium. Explorations in the Evolution of British Imperial Policy in India''. Three Essays Collective. 2010. {{ISBN|978-81-88789-64-1}}
* ''Memories of a Rolling Stone''. Zubaan Books. 2010. {{ISBN|978-81-89884-52-9}}.

==See also==
* [[State feminism]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

===Additional references===
* ''A Pathmaker: tributes to Vina Mazumdar''. Rainbow Publishers, 2002. {{ISBN|978-81-86962-43-5}}.
* [http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55726/2/CM_Mazumdar.pdf Vina Mazumdar Bibliography] [[University of Michigan Library#Deep Blue|Deep Blue]], Michigan University
* {{cite book |title=Women's Education in India: 1986–1987 |author=Surendra P. Agrawal |author2=J. C. Aggarwal |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |year=1992|isbn=978-8170223184 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJD4EM2kvt0C&pg=PA61 |ref=Ag }}

==Further reading==
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Efv3V7Y9WzsC&pg=PA48 Women's Movement in India: 1970s–1990s, by Indu Agnihotri and Vina Mazumdar] ''Writing the women's movement: a reader'', Ed. Mala Khullar. Zubaan, 2005. {{ISBN|81-86706-99-2}}. ''p. 48–79''
* {{cite news |title=Memoir: Vina Mazumdar (interview) |url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/7BIc1kfNMo4fiZAvACcDWL/Memoir--Vina-Mazumdar.html |publisher=Mint |date= 30 May 2013 }}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041211142951/http://www.cwds.org/index.htm Centre for Women's Development Studies, website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131231112831/http://cutv.ws/documentary/watch-online/play/753/Vina-Mazumdar Vina Mazumdar, Documentary Sparrow, India] Duration: 92.07 min; Director: Vishnu Mathur; Genre: Documentary; Produced In: 2003. Sound and Picture Archive for Research on Women (SPARROW)
* [http://pad.ma/MH/info Unlimited Girls – Interview with Veena Mazumdar, Part 1] Location: New Delhi; Duration: 68 min Director: Paromita Vohra (2002)
* [http://pad.ma/NC/info Unlimited Girls – Interview with Veena Mazumdar, Part 2] Location: New Delhi; Duration: 42 min Director: Paromita Vohra (2002)

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