.svg)
6
edits
Mala Sen: Difference between revisions
m
robot: Update article (please report if you notice any mistake or error in this edit)
>Julia bee1 m (→Popular culture and legacy: added NPG acquisition) |
m (robot: Update article (please report if you notice any mistake or error in this edit)) |
||
| Line 32: | Line 32: | ||
| subject = <!-- or: | subjects = --> | | subject = <!-- or: | subjects = --> | ||
| movement = | | movement = | ||
| notable works = ''India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi'' (1991); <br>''Death by Fire: Sati, Dowry Death and Female Infanticide in Modern India'' (2001) | | notable works = ''India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi'' (1991); <br />''Death by Fire: Sati, Dowry Death and Female Infanticide in Modern India'' (2001) | ||
| spouses = [[Farrukh Dhondy]] (m. 1968; div. 1976) | | spouses = [[Farrukh Dhondy]] (m. 1968; div. 1976) | ||
| partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | | partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | ||
| Line 46: | Line 46: | ||
| portaldisp = <!-- "on", "yes", "true", etc; or omit --> | | portaldisp = <!-- "on", "yes", "true", etc; or omit --> | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Mala Sen''' (3 June 1947 – 21 May 2011) was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]]-[[India]]n-[[British Indian|British]] writer and [[human rights activist]]. As an activist, she was known for her [[civil rights]] activism and [[race relations]] work in London during the 1960s and 1970s, as part of the [[British Asian]] and [[British Black Panthers]] movements,<ref name="huffington"/> and later her [[women's rights]] activism in India. As a writer, she was known for her book ''India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of [[Phoolan Devi]]'', which led to the acclaimed 1994 film ''[[Bandit Queen]]''. After researching the oppression of women in rural India, she also published ''Death by Fire'' in 2001.<ref name=guard>{{ | '''Mala Sen''' (3 June 1947 – 21 May 2011) was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]]-[[India]]n-[[British Indian|British]] writer and [[human rights activist]]. As an activist, she was known for her [[civil rights]] activism and [[race relations]] work in London during the 1960s and 1970s, as part of the [[British Asian]] and [[British Black Panthers]] movements,<ref name="huffington"/> and later her [[women's rights]] activism in India. As a writer, she was known for her book ''India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of [[Phoolan Devi]]'', which led to the acclaimed 1994 film ''[[Bandit Queen]]''. After researching the oppression of women in rural India, she also published ''Death by Fire'' in 2001.<ref name=guard>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/13/mala-sen-obituary|title=Mala Sen obituary|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|author=Kotak, Ash|date=13 June 2011|access-date=10 November 2016 }}</ref><ref name=tel>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/8546445/Mala-Sen.html|title=Mala Sen|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=30 May 2011|access-date=10 November 2016 }}</ref> | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
| Line 55: | Line 55: | ||
After arriving in England, Sen began working as a seamstress to help to pay the bills.<ref name=guard/> Increasingly taking an interest in race relations, she fought for the rights of Indian factory workers in [[Leicester]].<ref name=guard/> Writing in the journal ''[[Race Today]]'', she reported on how [[Bangladeshi]]s in the [[East End of London]] worked in sweatshops while living in dormitories where beds were shared around the clock by shiftworkers.<ref name=guard/> Separated from their Indian families, they did not qualify for housing accommodation as they were listed as single. Together with her husband and other activists, Sen founded the Bengali Housing Action Group, which led to the establishment of [[Brick Lane]] as a safe living area for the [[British Bangladeshi|Bangladeshi community]] in [[East London]].<ref name=guard/> | After arriving in England, Sen began working as a seamstress to help to pay the bills.<ref name=guard/> Increasingly taking an interest in race relations, she fought for the rights of Indian factory workers in [[Leicester]].<ref name=guard/> Writing in the journal ''[[Race Today]]'', she reported on how [[Bangladeshi]]s in the [[East End of London]] worked in sweatshops while living in dormitories where beds were shared around the clock by shiftworkers.<ref name=guard/> Separated from their Indian families, they did not qualify for housing accommodation as they were listed as single. Together with her husband and other activists, Sen founded the Bengali Housing Action Group, which led to the establishment of [[Brick Lane]] as a safe living area for the [[British Bangladeshi|Bangladeshi community]] in [[East London]].<ref name=guard/> | ||
Along with Dhondy, Sen was also an active member of the [[British Black Panthers]] movement.<ref name="huffington">{{Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/farrukh-dhondy/guerrilla-a-british-black_b_15956986.html|title=Guerrilla: A British Black Panther's View By Farrukh Dhondy (One Of The Original British Black Panthers)|last=Dhondy|first=Farrukh|date=12 April 2017|website=[[The Huffington Post]]|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-04-12}}</ref> She was an early member of the [[Race Today|''Race Today'' Collective]].<ref>{{ | Along with Dhondy, Sen was also an active member of the [[British Black Panthers]] movement.<ref name="huffington">{{Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/farrukh-dhondy/guerrilla-a-british-black_b_15956986.html|title=Guerrilla: A British Black Panther's View By Farrukh Dhondy (One Of The Original British Black Panthers)|last=Dhondy|first=Farrukh|date=12 April 2017|website=[[The Huffington Post]]|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-04-12}}</ref> She was an early member of the [[Race Today|''Race Today'' Collective]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/14/guerilla-fight-racial-equality | title=What does Guerilla teach us about the fight for racial equality today? | Elizabeth Obi and others| newspaper=The Guardian| date=2017-04-14| last1=Obi| first1=Elizabeth|author-link=Elizabeth Obi| last2=Okolosie| first2=Lola| last3=Andrews| first3=Kehinde| last4=Amrani| first4=Iman}}</ref> Her writing is included in ''Here to Stay, Here to Fight – A Race Today Anthology'' ([[Pluto Press]], 2019), edited by Paul Field, Robin Bunce, [[Leila Hassan]] and Margaret Peacock, which features contributions to the journal between 1973 and 1988.<ref>[https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339757/here-to-stay-here-to-fight/ "Here to Stay, Here to Fight – A Race Today Anthology"], Pluto Press.</ref> | ||
===Research and writing=== | ===Research and writing=== | ||