peoplepill id: narmada-kar
NK
India
1 views today
2 views this week
Narmada Kar
The first Women graduate of Odisha

Narmada Kar

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
The first Women graduate of Odisha
Places
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Cuttack, Cuttack District, Central division, India
Place of death
Kolkata, Bengal, India
Age
86 years
Family
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Narmada Kar (1893–1980), the first woman from Odisha to pass the B.A. examination.

Early life

Kar was born on 12 October 1893 to Biswanath Kar, freedom fighter, social activist and founder of Utkal Sahitya at Cuttack, India. After passing her entrance examination from Calcutta University she joined the historical Bethun College, completed her graduation on 1914 and became the first women graduate ofOdisha. At the age of 16 she married Jitendra Biswas, a Bengali lawyer. She stayed at Calcutta for the education of their children.

Death

On 13 September 1980 Kar died in her house at Calcutta, India.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Narmada Kar is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Credits
References and sources
Narmada Kar
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes