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Madhu Purnima Kishwar is an Indian academic and a Hindutva commentator..
She is a professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), [13] based in Delhi, and the Director of the Indic Studies Project based at CSDS.
Madhu Kishwar
Indian activist and writer (born 1951)
Madhu Purnima Kishwar is an Indian academic and a Hindutva commentator.[1][2][3][4] She is currently employed as a chair Professor in the Indian Council of Social Science Research.
Kishwar along with fellow-academic Ruth Vanita co-founded the journal Manushi.
Whilst her earlier work were favorably received by the academia and fellow activists, her counterparts disassociated from her post the '90s, once she embraced the ideology of Hindutva.[5][6][a]
She has been awarded the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediaperson in 1985.[8]
Early life and education
Kishwar was born in 1951 in Delhi, into a family of partition refugees from present-day Pakistan.
Her father's family came from Lahore, while her mother's came from Peshawar.[9][b] She graduated from Miranda House in Delhi,[10] where she was the