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She edited and published AIOTA's journal, ''[[List of Medknow Publications academic journals|Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy]]'' from 1955, and ''The Journal of Rehabilitation in Asia'' from 1959.<ref name=":2" /> She also wrote articles for other scholarly journals.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nimbkar|first=Kamala V.|date=1959-01-01|title=Training Of Occupational Therapists For Work In The Psychiatric Field|url=http://www.indianjpsychiatry.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5545;year=1959;volume=1;issue=2;spage=73;epage=75;aulast=Nimbkar;type=0|journal=Indian Journal of Psychiatry|language=en|volume=1|issue=2|pages=73|issn=0019-5545}}</ref> Her book, ''A New Life for the Handicapped: A History of Rehabilitation and Occupational Therapy in India'', was published posthumously in 1980.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Nimbkar|first=Kamala V.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KfdsAAAAMAAJ|title=A New Life for the Handicapped: A History of Rehabilitation and Occupational Therapy in India|date=1980|publisher=Nimbkar Rehabilitation Trust|language=en}}</ref>
She edited and published AIOTA's journal, ''[[List of Medknow Publications academic journals|Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy]]'' from 1955, and ''The Journal of Rehabilitation in Asia'' from 1959.<ref name=":2" /> She also wrote articles for other scholarly journals.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nimbkar|first=Kamala V.|date=1959-01-01|title=Training Of Occupational Therapists For Work In The Psychiatric Field|url=http://www.indianjpsychiatry.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5545;year=1959;volume=1;issue=2;spage=73;epage=75;aulast=Nimbkar;type=0|journal=Indian Journal of Psychiatry|language=en|volume=1|issue=2|pages=73|issn=0019-5545}}</ref> Her book, ''A New Life for the Handicapped: A History of Rehabilitation and Occupational Therapy in India'', was published posthumously in 1980.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Nimbkar|first=Kamala V.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KfdsAAAAMAAJ|title=A New Life for the Handicapped: A History of Rehabilitation and Occupational Therapy in India|date=1980|publisher=Nimbkar Rehabilitation Trust|language=en}}</ref>
She talked about her life and work in an oral interview given to University of Cambridge<ref>{{Cite web|title=Interview: Mrs. Kamala V. Nimbkar|url=https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/item/interview-mrs-kamala-v-nimbkar/|access-date=2020-07-18|website=Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge}}</ref>


== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
Lundy met her husband Vishnu Nimbkar, an Indian businessman, in New York, converted to [[Hinduism]], and moved with him to India in 1930.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Interview: Mrs. Kamala V. Nimbkar|url=https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/item/interview-mrs-kamala-v-nimbkar/|access-date=2020-07-18|website=Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge}}</ref> She lived at the [[Sabarmati Ashram]], the residence of [[Mahatma Gandhi]], for several months upon arrival. She died in 1979, aged 79 years, in India.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=Summer 1980|title=Class Notes|url=https://archive.org/details/barnardalumnae694barn/page/32/mode/2up?q=Nimbkar|journal=Barnard Alumnae Magazine|pages=33}}</ref> Some of her letters are in her father's papers at [[Swarthmore College]].<ref name=":0" /> Her son is [[B. V. Nimbkar]],<ref name=":3" /> and one of her granddaughters is [[Nandini Nimbkar]], both noted agricultural scientists. A secular, [[Marathi language|Marathi]] medium school in [[Phaltan]], Kamala Nimbkar Balbhavan, is named for her.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kamala Nimbkar Balbhavan|url=https://pssphaltan.org/kamlanimbkar.php|access-date=2020-07-18|website=Pragat Shikshan Sanstha}}</ref>
Lundy met her husband Vishnu Nimbkar, an Indian businessman, in New York, converted to [[Hinduism]], and moved with him to India in 1930.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Interview: Mrs. Kamala V. Nimbkar|url=https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/item/interview-mrs-kamala-v-nimbkar/|access-date=2020-07-18|website=Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge}}</ref> She lived at the [[Sabarmati Ashram]], the residence of [[Mahatma Gandhi]], for several months upon arrival. She died in 1979, aged 79 years, in India.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=Summer 1980|title=Class Notes|url=https://archive.org/details/barnardalumnae694barn/page/32/mode/2up?q=Nimbkar|journal=Barnard Alumnae Magazine|pages=33}}</ref> Some of her letters are in her father's papers at [[Swarthmore College]].<ref name=":0" /> Her son was [[B. V. Nimbkar]],<ref name=":3" /> and one of her granddaughters is [[Nandini Nimbkar]], both noted agricultural scientists. A secular, [[Marathi language|Marathi]] medium school in [[Phaltan]], Kamala Nimbkar Balbhavan, is named after her.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kamala Nimbkar Balbhavan|url=https://pssphaltan.org/kamlanimbkar.php|access-date=2020-07-18|website=Pragat Shikshan Sanstha}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 15:13, 30 October 2021

Kamala Nimbkar
A middle-aged white woman with hair braided across her crown. She is wearing eyeglasses and a sari.
Kamala Nimbkar, from a 1972 publication.
Born
Elizabeth Lundy

5 January 1900
Mount Holly, New Jersey
Died29 August 1979
India
OccupationOccupational therapist, educator
ChildrenB. V. Nimbkar (son)
RelativesNandini Nimbkar (granddaughter)

Kamala Vishnu Nimbkar (January 5, 1900 – August 29, 1979), born Elizabeth Lundy, was an American-born occupational therapist in India.

Early life[edit]

Elizabeth Lundy was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey the daughter of Joseph Wilmer Lundy and Bessie Morris Roberts Lundy. Her father was a Quaker businessman.[1] She attended the Quaker George School, and earned a bachelor's degree in economics at Barnard College in 1926.[2] She returned to the United States later in her forties, to study occupational therapy at the Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy.[3][4]

Career[edit]

Before college, Lundy worked as a secretary on a statistical study of coal miners, for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Mines.[5] In India after she married, Nimbkar taught kindergarten by the Froebel method, and started several schools in that tradition.[6] She is credited as founding the first school for occupational therapy (OT) in India in 1948, when she started the OT department at KEM Hospital.[7][8] In 1958 she founded a second school for OT in Nagpur. She was also founder of the All India Occupational Therapists Association (AIOTA) in 1952, and served as the association's president until 1959.[3][9] In 1960 she founded the Indian Society for the Rehabilitation of the Handicapped, and was its secretary-general until the 1970s.[10]

In 1957 she represented India at an international conference on rehabilitation, held in Indonesia.[10] She visited Baltimore therapy programs in 1959.[11] In 1965, she attended a reunion of patients and therapists from the Toomey Pavilion, a respiratory clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, hosted by Gini Laurie.[12] At a conference in Australia in 1972, she was honored with the Lasker Award by the International Society for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled.[6][13][14]

She edited and published AIOTA's journal, Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy from 1955, and The Journal of Rehabilitation in Asia from 1959.[10] She also wrote articles for other scholarly journals.[15] Her book, A New Life for the Handicapped: A History of Rehabilitation and Occupational Therapy in India, was published posthumously in 1980.[16]

She talked about her life and work in an oral interview given to University of Cambridge[17]

Personal life[edit]

Lundy met her husband Vishnu Nimbkar, an Indian businessman, in New York, converted to Hinduism, and moved with him to India in 1930.[18] She lived at the Sabarmati Ashram, the residence of Mahatma Gandhi, for several months upon arrival. She died in 1979, aged 79 years, in India.[19] Some of her letters are in her father's papers at Swarthmore College.[1] Her son was B. V. Nimbkar,[6] and one of her granddaughters is Nandini Nimbkar, both noted agricultural scientists. A secular, Marathi medium school in Phaltan, Kamala Nimbkar Balbhavan, is named after her.[20]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 An Inventory of the J. Wilmer Lundy Family Papers, 1781-1964, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
  2. ↑ Barnard College Alumnae Bibliography (2009): 90.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Occupational Therapy: An Indian Historical Perspective". AIOTA. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  4. ↑ "PTA Hears Guest Speaker". The Ithaca Journal. 1947-10-23. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-07-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Honor Casteless School Innovator". Barnard Bulletin. 1959-04-30. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-07-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Skinner, Olivia (1972-09-25). "Love Affair with India". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. 35. Retrieved 2020-07-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Occupational Therapy School and Center". King Edward Memorial Hospital. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  8. ↑ "Muncie Girl to Aid in Opening School in India". Muncie Evening Press. 1948-10-25. p. 6. Retrieved 2020-07-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "The Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy: About us". The Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Sullivan, Timy. "Mrs. Kamala V. Nimbkar: Editor, The Journal of Rehabilitation in Asia" Rehabilitation Gazette 15(1972): 33.
  11. ↑ "Indian Therapist Makes Study Here". The Baltimore Sun. 1959-04-17. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-07-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Toomey Reunion... 1965" (PDF). Toomey J. Gazette. 9: 93. 1966.
  13. ↑ "Historical Awards". The Lasker Foundation. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  14. ↑ "3 Will Receive Lasker Prizes". Daily News. 1972-08-27. p. 51. Retrieved 2020-07-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ Nimbkar, Kamala V. (1959-01-01). "Training Of Occupational Therapists For Work In The Psychiatric Field". Indian Journal of Psychiatry. 1 (2): 73. ISSN 0019-5545.
  16. ↑ Nimbkar, Kamala V. (1980). A New Life for the Handicapped: A History of Rehabilitation and Occupational Therapy in India. Nimbkar Rehabilitation Trust.
  17. ↑ "Interview: Mrs. Kamala V. Nimbkar". Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  18. ↑ "Interview: Mrs. Kamala V. Nimbkar". Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  19. ↑ "Class Notes". Barnard Alumnae Magazine: 33. Summer 1980.
  20. ↑ "Kamala Nimbkar Balbhavan". Pragat Shikshan Sanstha. Retrieved 2020-07-18.

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