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Lotika Sarkar was born on 4 January, 1923 in India, is an Indian feminist, educator and lawyer. Discover Lotika Sarkar's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Occupation feminist, educator and lawyer
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 4 January, 1923
Birthday 4 January
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Date of death 23 February, 2013
Died Place New Delhi, India
Nationality India

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1923

Lotika Sarkar (4 January 1923 – 23 February 2013) was a noted Indian feminist, social worker, educator and lawyer, who was a pioneer in the field of women's studies and women's rights in India.

Born in 1923, she was raised in an aristocratic family in West Bengal, where her father Sir Dhiren Mitra was leading lawyer of India.

Sarkar studied law at Newnham College, Cambridge and became the first Indian woman to study and also then graduate from the university.

1951

Starting in 1951, she taught law at Faculty of Law, University of Delhi till 1983, and also remained the head of the law faculty; thereafter she taught at Indian Law Institute.

She was the first Indian woman to graduate from Cambridge University, and later in 1951 she also became the first woman to receive a PhD degree in law from the university.

Later she wrote a PhD in Law, also at Cambridge University, awarded in 1951.

She met Chanchal Sarkar in 1951, while he too was studying at Cambridge, they married in 1957.

1953

In 1953, when Sarkar started teaching at the law faculty, University of Delhi, she was the first female lecturer in the faculty.

1960

Thereafter in 1960, she studied international law at the Harvard University, where she was one of four Indian students, returning to India in 1961.

Law was still a new field for women, initially there were only 10 girls in the course, a number which grew to 80–100 by the 1960s.

1971

In 1971, she became a member of the Committee on the Status of Women in India (CSWI), where along with her colleague, Vina Mazumdar, who joined in 1973 as Member-Secretary, there went on to publish the seminal, Towards Equality: The Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India (1974–75) In 1979, the Supreme Court of India reversed the judgment of Bombay High Court in the Mathura rape case, in which two policemen were sentenced for raping of sixteen-year-old girl within a police station.

1979

The acquittal, went largely unnoticed until September 1979, when professors Upendra Baxi, Raghunath Kelkar and Sarkar of Delhi University and Vasudha Dhagamwar of Pune, wrote an open letter to the Supreme Court, protesting the concept of consent in the judgment.

"Consent involves submission, but the converse is not necessarily true...From the facts of case, all that is established is submission, and not consent...Is the taboo against pre-marital sex so strong as to provide a license to Indian police to rape young girls."

1980

She was a founding member of Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS), Delhi, established in 1980, and also Indian Association for Women Studies, established in 1982.

Later in January 1980 she formed the first feminist group against rape, "Forum Against Rape", widespread protests followed and eventually Indian Penal Code was amended.

In 1980, she became a founder member of Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS), Delhi, founded by Vina Mazumdar, and which went on to become an influential institution, impacting the course of women's studies in India.

Through the 1980s and 90s, she taught criminal law at the Indian Law Institute in Delhi.

1982

She was also a founding member of Indian Association for Women's Studies, established in 1982.

1983

She taught here till 1983, teaching eminent jurist and lawyers, and finally became the Head of the law faculty, and also the university don.

2005

Chanchal Sarkar went on to become an eminent journalist, assistant editor of The Statesman and founding director of the Press Institute of India in 1963; he died on 10 October 2005 in Delhi.

The couple had no children.

2009

She continued to live thereafter at their Hauz Khas, Delhi residence, which she was disposed of January 2009 by the tenants, which led to a media furore Several leading intellectuals, jurists, academics, journalists, activists and over a dozen national groups and institutions came forward in her support demanding speedy justice, some even met the President, before the house was restored to her by the courts in November 2009.

2013

She died in New Delhi on 23 February 2013, at the age of 90.