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[Savithri Preetha Nair’s Chromosome Woman, Nomad Scientist — E K Janaki Ammal, A Life 1897-1984 is an extraordinary achievement. It carefully-lovingly- follows the life, times, and achievements of a woman achiever from Malabar in the early twentieth century, who was almost forgotten in Kerala till very recent times. Nair is a historian of science and independent scholar based in London. Below is an excerpt from the book — which reminds us of how women as knowledge-makers are so easily forgotten and rewarded so late. But speaking from Kerala, it might seem that Janaki was able to pursue science avidly only because she was outside Kerala — so hostile is this state to thinking women outside literature]

In 1977, when she was almost eighty, the Government of India finally decided to award Janaki a Padma the fourth-highest civilian award; a terribly belated recognition for the first Indian woman to be awarded a doctorate in the botanical sciences, the first woman to head a central government institution of science, the only Indian female presence at landmark

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