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Professor Kamla Chowdhry with Dilnavaz Sidhwa (left) and Harsha Rawal (right), the only two women who graduated with the first batch of the PGP (1964-66). Credit: IIMA Archives
Aditi Tandon
New Delhi, December 18
That the premier Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) had three founding fathers—nuclear scientist Vikram Sarabhai, industrial Kasturbhai Lalbhai and former Gujarat chief minister Jivraj Mehta—is well-documented.
What was not known until today is that the institute also had a founding mother, who, new research now shows, could not become the Director due to “sexism.”
Kamla Chowdhry was IIMA’s first faculty member and a coordinator of programmes at the school between 1962 and 1965.