Irawati Karve

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Irawati Karve (1905 - 1970) was an Indian anthropologist.

She was born in Burma and educated in Pune, India. She received a masters degree in Sociology from Pune in 1928 and a doctorate in Anthropology from Berlin in 1930. Writing in both Marathi and English on a wide variety of academic subjects as well as topics of general interest, she commanded a wide circle of readership.

She was daughter-in-law of Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve.

[edit] Works

Her principal books are:

  • Hindu Society - an interpretation - A study of the Hindu society based on data collected on her field trips and her persual of texts in Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit. Paying, the most attention to the caste system, she discusses the pre-Aryan existence of the phenomena and traces its development to its present form.
  • Yuganta - A look at the main characters of the Mahabharata. These character studies treat the protagonists as historical characters and use their attitudes and behaviour to understand the times they lived in. Written originally in Marathi, it was later translated by the author into English. The book won the Sahitya Academy award in 1968.
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