Irawati Karve, regarded by many as India’s first female anthropologist and certainly the first woman to occupy a university position in the discipline, ought to be a household name. While some ...

Irawati Karve led a life that stood apart from those around her. Born in British-ruled India, and at a time when women didn't have many rights or freedoms, Karve did the unthinkable: she pursued ...

New Delhi: When Irawati Karve examined the skulls from Germany, East Africa, Rwanda, and Tanzania, she looked into their eye sockets. She would try and imagine their eyes, hair, smile—the people ...