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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.