political, human rights and social controversy in the media in West Bengal, and eastern India, where the discourse is traditionally Brahmin-Baniya dominated. However, her death did not receive the attention of Indian American social science professors as it did among Western social scientists who were studying the Indian caste system, like Professor Nicholas B. Dirks at Columbia University and Professor Jan Breman at the University of Amsterdam. Upon her death, Bangla Dalit Sahitya Sanstha, Kolkata, organized a mass movement through different seminars and street corners, street play protesting against university teachers, on the street of Kolkata. Since 1993, it organizes the Annual Chuni Kotal Memorial Lecture in Kolkata every year. Later a motivational video film has been produced on her life story by Department of Education, Govt. of India References External links Review of Mahasweta Devi's The Book of the Hunter by Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta in The Hindu. Retrieved 23 March 2007. Scheduled Tribes of India People from Paschim Medinipur district Indian anthropologists Indian caste leaders Victims of human rights abuses Suicides in India 1965 births 1992 deaths Discrimination in India Vidyasagar University alumni Indian women activists Indian women anthropologists Dalit women Indian women social scientists Scientists from West Bengal Dalit activists 20th-century Indian educators 20th-century Indian women scientists 20th-century Indian social scientists Women scientists from West Bengal Activists from West Bengal Adivasi activists Adivasi women Educators from West Bengal Women educators from West Bengal 20th-century anthropologists 20th-century women educators