Person
Prabha Khaitan
Hindi writer; translated Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex for Hindi readers
A peer-reviewed article in Cracow Indological Studies states that she hailed from a Marwari family and reads her life as a reaction to the conventions of the conservative Marwari community of Kolkata. This publication assigns ethnicity to nobody; it records what has been published, with a link.
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“Prabha Khaitan's personality is complex and multifaceted: she hailed from a Marwari family, whose economic condition had declined after Prabha's father's sudden death, and her whole life can be read as a reaction to the conventions and norms of the conservative Marwari community of Kolkata.”