In the Path of
Service: Memories of a Changing Century
Ashoka Gupta
Translated from the Bengali by Sipra Bhattacharya with Ranjana
Dasgupta
demy octavo hb 254pp
ISBN 81-85604-56-8 Rs 450 Feb 2005; rpt, April 2008
Born in 1912 and bearing witness to nine remarkable decades,
full of change and movement, Ashoka Gupta writes an account of her life and
times. These were decades, she says, ‘of new beginnings and new learning. These
were also nine decades of turbulent change in the life of a
nation-in-in-the-making eager to find its place in the sun’. Thus she knits her
personal and public life together. Of particular interest is her narrative of
the Bengal Famine of 1943, of Noakhali where she undertook relief work in 1946,
under the guidance of Mahatma Gandhi, and her work after independence.
Ashoka Gupta was the former president of the All India
Women’s Conference and its patron. She was a member of many social welfare
organizations and spent her life in social work.Sipra Bhattacharya teaches history and is a translator;
Ranjana Dasgupta works as a research assistant at the Institute of Development
Studies, Kolkata.
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