Freedom fighters · Independence struggle · 1903–1988
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
Freedom fighter, feminist organiser, and later the force behind craft cooperatives and the revival of Indian handloom livelihoods.
She sat in the independence movement and then built post-1947 institutions for artisans. Freedom included the right to earn with dignity from skill.
Culture as livelihood, not only museum display.
Why on this wall
Women's political courage plus livelihood nation-building.