Chuni Kotal was a Dalit Adivasi of Lodha Shabar tribe, a Scheduled Tribes of India, who in 1985 became the first woman graduate among the Lodha Shabars.
Her death through suicide on 16 August 1992, after years of harassment by officials, united the Lodha Shabar community in a big way. Eventually her story was highlighted by noted writer-activist Mahasweta Devi in her book in Bengali, Byadhkhanda in (1994), ( The Book of the Hunter (2002))[1]
Har Na Mana Har (2021) is a Bengali novel has been written by Subhabrata Basu based on her tragic life
ChuniKotal was a Dalit Adivasi of Lodha Shabar tribe, a Scheduled Tribes of India, who in 1985 became the first woman graduate among the Lodha Shabars...
Bengal, the Dalit literary movement began in 1992 after the suicide of ChuniKotal, leading to the formation of the Bangla Dalit Sahitya Sanstha and the...
the organized Dalit literary movement did not begin until 1992 after ChuniKotal's death by suicide. The protests against her death led to the formation...
declared as a 'Primitive Tribal Group' (PTG) by the Government of India. ChuniKotal "West Bengal: Data Highlights the Scheduled Tribes" (PDF). Census of...
primarily responsible for properly grooming the likes of Chuni and Singh. On the recommendations of Chuni and Kempiah, Isaiyah Arumayinayigam had joined the...
country produced coveted strikers such as Sheoo Mewalal, Neville D'Souza, Chuni Goswami, Inder Singh and Tulsidas Balaram. Mewalal was India's starting...
Mohammedan SC (Kolkata) Kamran Farooque, defender for Churchill Brothers FC Chuni Goswami, former Indian Footballer, Padma Shri awardee, awarded the best...
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