Irawati Karve: The Indian scholar who challenged Nazi racism | BBC News India

Irawati Karve became India’s first female anthropologist - studying tribes that nobody had investigated, and taking her children on expeditions deep in the rainforest. In 1927, she dared to defy the racist theory of Eugen Fischer, a famous German professor during her PhD in Berlin. Irawati scientifically rejected human differences to justify discrimination, and was the first to do so. Her granddaughter, Urmilla Deshpande, speaks to Reena Stanton-Sharma about her life and career. #IrawatiKarve, #Karve, #AnthropologyIndia, #IndianWomenPioneers, #IrawatiKarveLegacy, #WomenAnthropologists, #IrawatiKarveHistory, #IndianScholar, #IndianAcademia, #WomenTrailblazers #lifeofirawatikarve #bbchistorydocumentary #whoisirawatikarve #indiananthropologist Click here to subscribe to our channel ?? https://bbc.in/3whmDp3 ----------------------------------- This is the official BBC News India channel. If you want to understand and follow the India story, we hope this will be your home. Here, you’ll find stories that move your heart and explainers, interviews and documentaries on issues that you care about. Don’t expect a 24/7 stream of news, we are not that channel. But you can look forward to top-quality BBC journalism that will help you make sense of what’s happening around you. Do comment on our videos and posts because we will be reading them and taking them on board, and if you like what we do, you can also find us here BBC Website ??https://bbc.in/3XjgjcP Instagram ?? https://bbc.in/3GNTSVW Facebook ?? https://bbc.in/3XgMc5M Twitter ?? https://bbc.in/3XlbAXZ Thanks for following us! #BBCNewsIndia #India