• Foreword: A Past and Future Teacher Gloria Steinem xi

• Introduction: Feminism and the Roots of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay's Activism Ellen Carol DuBois 1

• Introduction: A Radical Democrat: Passion and Politics in the Life of Kamaladevi Vinay Lal 20

• Part I Kamaladevi's Writings

• 1 Her Life and Her Credo 45

• A Kannada Childhood 47

• India's Needs: Shrimati Kamala Devi's Election Speech 53

• Restatement of Human Values 57

• 2 Feminism and Women in India 67

• The Status of Women in India 70

• Enfranchisement of Women 76

• Labour and Motherhood 80

• The Women's Movement - Then and Now 85

• Some Real Issues Facing Women 89

• 3 Socialism at Home and Abroad 98

• The Simple Case for Democratic Socialism 101

• Socialists, a Bunch of Reactionaries? 108

• The Congress and Socialism 118

• Communists and Indian Socialism 123

• 4 Gandhi: Liberator and Mentor, Autocrat and Magician 127

• Enter Gandhi 131

• What Gandhiji Has Done for Women 133

• Mahatma Gandhi and One World 142

• A New Mode of Dissent 147

• Forging a Nation: The Constructive Programme 151

• An Unorthodox Fighter 165

• 5 Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Partition of India 167

• Imperialism and Class-Struggle 170

• Pakistan and the Shifting of Population 178

• Salt and Satyagraha 184

• Vivisection and a Fractured Past 200

• 6 Social Reconstruction after Independence 205

• Refugees, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction 208

• The Food Problem 215

• 7 Asia, Africa, and the Global South 222

• Letters to Mary Van Kleeck 225

• Nanking 237

• Chungking 240

• The Awakening of Asia 246

• The People of Africa 252

• The Struggle of Viet Nam Against French Imperialism 259

• 8 An Indian in America 269

• In America 271

• The Caribbean - America's Sea of Destiny 283

• The Heritage of the Pilgrims 286

• A Facet of America: The T. V. A. 291

• 9 Embroidering India: Arts, Crafts, and Culture 298

• Handicrafts in India 301

• Early Vignettes from a Life in the Arts 309

• Painting with Needle 314

• The Media of Puppetry 319

• 10 The Tribal World 323

• An Englishman in Another India 325

• The Tribal Worldview 328

• Part II Critical Assessments

• Creativity as Freedom: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Politics of Self-Expression Annie Devenish 351

• Becoming a Coloured Woman: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the African American Freedom Struggle Nico Slate 375

• 'Chasing Me Over the Globe': Kamaladevi and the Limits of Imperial Surveillance and Passport Controls, 1939-41 Julie Laut 401

• Indian Internationalism and the Implementation of Self-Determination: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the United Nations Human Rights Commission Manu Bhagavan 424

• The Essential Freedom Fighter: Some Reminiscences of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Devaki Jain 445

• Chronological Table Vinay Lal Jesse Mosqueda 457