Vina Mazumdar

Vina Mazumdar (28 March 1927 - 30 May 2013) studied at Calcutta University and at Oxford University. She taught Political Science at the University of Patna and Berhampur University, and had been a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. She was the founder-Director of the Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS) in 1980, New Delhi, a position she held till 1991.

She was a women's activist and a recorder and chronicler of the Indian Women's Movement, and came to be called "the grandmother of women's studies in South Asia".