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J. Devika

Indian historian

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Also known as Jayakumari Devika

Born: 20th century
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Birthplace: Kollam
Citizenship: India
Occupation: historian
, writer
Education: Jawaharlal Nehru University

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Jayakumari Devika is a Malayali historian, feminist, social critic and academic from Kerala. She currently researches and teaches at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram as a professor. She has authored several books and articles on gender relations in early Kerala society. She is bilingual and has translated both fiction and non-fiction books between Malayalam and English. She also writes on gender, politics, social reforms and development in Kerala on publications like Kafila, Economic and Political Weekly and The Wire.

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''Kulastreeyum' 'Chanthapennum' Undayathengane?2010 · A book that discusses how Malayali femininity was shaped through the social reforms and gender changes that occurred in Kerala in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries.

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Sex or gender: female
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1.Stated in BnF authoritiesRetrieved 2024-06-24
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Given name: J.

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