Kalpana Kannabiran

Kalpana Kannabiran is an Indian sociologist and lawyer. She is the current Director of Council for Social Development, Hyderabad.^[1] She is also the co-founder of the ASMITA Resource Centre for Women, a women's rights group.^[2] She is the daughter of notable human rights activist, K. G. Kannabiran.^[3]

Career

Kalpana Kannabiran has a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a Master of Laws (LLM) in Jurisprudence from Osmania University. She works in the field of women studies and legal aspects of discrimination.^[1]

In June 2009, she resigned from her post at the Nalsar University of Law claiming that there was a North-South divide on the campus.^[4] In October 2015, she was among the sociologists who signed a joint statement condemning the Dadri mob lynching, and the murders of M. M. Kalburgi, Narendra Dabholkar, and Govind Pansare.^[5]

Bibliography

• Kalpana Kannabiran; Vasanth Kannabiran (2003). Muvalur Ramamirthammal's Web of Deceit: Devadasi Reform in Colonial India. Zubaan. ISBN 978-81-86706-63-3. 
• Kalpana Kannabirān (1 January 2005). The Violence of Normal Times: Essays on Women's Lived Realities. Women Unlimited, an associate of Kali for Women. ISBN 978-81-88965-06-9. 
• Kalpana Kannabirān; Ritu Menon (1 January 2007). From Mathura to Manorama: Resisting Violence Against Women in India. Women Unlimited. ISBN 978-81-88965-35-9. 
• Kalpana Kannabiran (1 February 2013). Tools of Justice: Non-discrimination and the Indian Constitution. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-19875-5. 
• Kalpana Kannabiran, ed. (30 August 2013). Women and Law: Critical Feminist Perspectives. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-81-321-1868-8. 

See also

• Devadasi
• Moovalur Ramamirtham

Further reading

• Editorials by Kalpana Kannabiran, The Hindu
• "All crimes are crimes against the state: Kalpana Kannabiran". Live Mint. 23 June 2014. Archived from the original on 23 June 2014. 

References

External links

• ASMITA Collective
• Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad