Early Life
Indrani Rahman was born in Chennai, (then Madras) to Ramalal Balram Bajpai (1880–1962), an Indian nationalist and president of the Indo-American League, and Esther Luella Sherman born in Petoskey, Michigan in 1893, (died 1982), who changed her name to 'Ragini Devi', once the couple moved to India, in 1920s, when Ramlal Bajpai, a chemist turned successful importer in US, returned to India and later remained Asst. Editor to the Young India magazine, published by Lala Lajpat Rai; after Independence of India, he became the Consulate General of India at New York. Ragini on her part became renowned all over the world for her role in revival of Indian classical dance in the 1930s, especially Kathakali, after her fateful encounter with the great rajadasi, Jetti Tayamma in Karnataka, from whom she started learning Bharata Natyam, and also from Gauri Amma of Chennai.
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