Kamala Dongerkery
Kamala Sunderrao Kulkarni Dongerkery (1909–1992) was an Indian social worker, art historian, author, and cultural historian. She wrote books on Indian embroidery, Indian jewelry and . She also wrote an autobiographical account of her life, On the wings of time (1968).[1]
Biography[]
Kamala Dongerkery was originally from Dharwar. She was married at the age of eleven,[2] to the educationist (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.[3]
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.[4]
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 Board of Film Censors.[1]
Works[]
- The Indian sari. New Delhi: All India Handicrafts Board, 1950.
- The romance of Indian embroidery. Bombay: Thacker, 1951.
- A journey through toyland. Bombay: Popular Book Depot, 1954.
- Traditional embroidery of India. New Delhi: All India Handicrafts Board, 1961.
- On Wings of Time. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, 1968.
- Jewelry and personal adornment in India. New Delhi: Indian Council for Cultural Relations, 1970.
- Interior decoration in India past and present. Bombay: Taraporevala, 1973.
- India, yours and mine. New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1976.
References[]
- ^ a b Anju Vyas and Ratna Sharma, Indian Women: Biographies and Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography, 2013, p.14-15.
- ^ Margaret E. Derrett (2020). "The Indian Novel Written in English - A Mirror of India?". In Richard Park (ed.). Change and the Persistence of Tradition in India: Five Lectures. University of Michigan Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-472-03843-5.
- ^ Shubha Tiwari, Lesser Known Important Autobiographies, boloji.com, 23 March 2013. Accessed 20 January 2021.
- ^ Emma Tarlo (1996). Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. pp. 322–3. ISBN 978-1-85065-176-5.
- 1909 births
- 1992 deaths
- Indian women historians
- Indian art historians
- Cultural historians