Irawati Karve

Irawati Karve (Devanagari: इरावती कर्वे; December 15, 1905 – August 11, 1970) was an Indian anthropologist, educationist, and a writer from Maharashtra, India. She was born to G. H. Karmarkar, engineer in Myingyan, Burma, She was named Irawati after the great and sacred Burmese river Irrawaddy. She grew up in Pune, India.

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