deaths
October 29, 1988
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian author and activist (born 1903)

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was an Indian social reformer. She worked for the promotion of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre in independent India to uplift the socio-economic standard of Indian women. She was the first woman in India to contest in elections from Madras Constituency, but lost.