Iru (Record no. 66065)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250902164606.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789354479595 |
| 028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME | |
| Distributor Name | Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd |
| Distributor address | A-184, A, Nand Gram, Ghaziabad |
| Bill Number | 871 |
| Bill Date | 21/08/2025 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 301.09 KAR |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Karve, Irawati. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Iru |
| Remainder of title | : The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve. |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | / Irawati Karve. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | , New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | : Tiger |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | , 2024. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiii, 261p. |
| Dimensions | : 24cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | 489 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | In 1927, when Irawati Karve, aged twenty-two, arrived in Berlin to do her doctoral studies at the Friedrich Wilhelm University, she was faced with a dilemma. As a woman of colour, the subject of her thesis was to prove her supervisor Dr Eugen Fischer’s theory of the superiority of the European race over people of colour, based on the measurement of their skulls. After examining 149 ‘white’ skulls from Germany and ‘non-white’ skulls from German colonies in East Africa, Irawati came to the opposite conclusion: the shape of the human skull did not prove racial superiority. Fischer’s theory was later discredited, but at the time, it took courage to present the paper to him and it nearly cost Irawati her PhD.<br/><br/>Courage and a pioneering spirit continued to be her hallmarks on her return to India. At a time when such field trips were difficult if not dangerous, she travelled to the Adivasi areas in Coorg, Western Maharashtra, Assam, Kerala and Bihar. Her research resulted in two seminal works, Kinship Organisation in India and Hindu Society.<br/><br/>In 1968, she won the Sahitya Akademi Award for her book of essays on the Mahabharata, Yuganta. Irawati’s belief that the Mahabharata was not just an epic, but a historical record, earned her some criticism from her peers at the time, but Yuganta remains a classic to this day.<br/><br/>As the daughter-in-law of the reformist and feminist thinker, Maharshi Dhondo Karve, adored wife of Dinkar Karve, and privileged daughter of two families— her own parents, Ganesh and Bhagirathi Karmarkar, and her adoptive family, R.P. Paranjpye and his wife, Saitai—Irawati’s personal life was as rich and colourful as her professional one.<br/><br/>In this biography like none other, writer Urmilla Deshpande, Irawati’s granddaughter, and academic researcher Thiago Pinto Barbosa, have created an intimate, captivating portrait of Irawati Karve, the anthropologist and philosopher, and Irawati, the woman, wife and mother. As author and Joint Director, JLF, Namita Gokhale says, ‘Irawati Karve stood tall with the tallest of her generation. This biography is a beacon for those who want to understand the Indian way—an inspirational story of an iconic figure.’ |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Remarkable Life |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Iru |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Irawati Karve |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Urmilla Deshpande. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Total Renewals | Full call number | Barcode | Checked out | Date last seen | Date checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | SNU LIBRARY | SNU LIBRARY | 02/09/2025 | Raghav Books Pvt. Ptd. | 489.00 | 2 | 3 | 301.09 KAR | 31103 | 30/11/2026 | 18/08/2026 | 18/08/2026 | 02/09/2025 | Books |
