Dr. Vina Mazumdar (28 March 1927 – 30 May 2013) was an Indian academic, left-wing activist and feminist. A pioneer in women's studies in India, she was a leading figure of the Indian women's movement. She was amongst the first women academics to combine activism with scholarly research in women's studies. She was secretary of the first Committee on the Status of Women in India that brought out the first report on the condition of women in the country, Towards Equality (1974).[1][2] She was the founding Director of the Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS), an autonomous organisation established in 1980, under the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). She was a National Research Professor at the Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi.[3]
^Interview with Vina Mazumdar, Global Feminisms Project Deep Blue, Michigan University
^"First Anniversary Special Fifty Faces, A Million Reasons: Vina Mazumdar : Gender Activist". Outlook. 23 October 1996. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011.
^Our people Centre for Women's Development Studies, website.
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Myth and Reality—Experiences of a Group of Muslim Women Workers" in VinaMazumdar (ed.) Women Workers in India. Chanakya Publications for ICSSR, 1990...
Glimpses of Kashmiri Culture – Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari (p. 57). R.C. Mazumdar, Ancient India, p. 383 Thapar 2003, p. 334. Chandra, Satish (2009). History...
and Political Weekly. 40 (8): 712–715. ISSN 0012-9976. JSTOR 4416225. Mazumdar, Vina. "An unfulfilled or a blurred vision?: Jawaharlal Nehru and Indian women"...
Culture, Government of India. Retrieved 8 October 2022. Kasturi, Leela; Mazumdar, Vina (1994). Women and Indian Nationalism. Vikas Publishing House. pp. 60...
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