Английская Википедия:Chandra Kanta Devi Malla

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Chandra Kanta Devi Malla (Шаблон:Lang-ne) was a Nepalese activist and teacher.

In 1897, Malla was born in Lalitpur, Nepal to Hindu reformist Madhavraj Joshi.[1][2] She is also the sister of Shukraraj Shastri, a democracy activist, and a martyr.[3][4]

At the age of 18, she married Umeshwar Lal Malla, later he left her.[1] She worked at Kaiser Mahal as a maid.[1]

In 1933, Malla received permission from the Ranas to open a girls' school.[5] She later recalled that "while walking to the school and coming back home, people used to stare at me, as if I was a princess".[1] The school was inaugurated by Juddha Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana.[1] In 1941, her brother Shukraraj was sentenced to death by hanging by the state, which devastated Malla.[1]

In 1961, she opened Shukraraj Shastri School, named after her brother.[1] She died in 1986.[1]

Malla is also referred to as the first guruama (feminine guru) in Nepal.[6][7]

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