K R Gowri

Select Language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Bengali Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Khmer Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Marathi Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

This is a collection of articles archived for the excellence of their content. Additional information may please be sent as messages to the Facebook community, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be gratefully acknowledged in your name.

A brief biography

May 12, 2021: The Times of India

Born on July 14, 1919 in Pattanakkad to K A Ramanan and Parvathy Amma, Gowri was attracted to politics at a young age.

One of the most powerful and tallest women leaders of Kerala politics, Gowri Amma, as she was fondly called, belonged to the erstwhile Communists who had toiled hard to build up the Left movement in the southern state battling police brutality under the colonial regime and stiff opposition from the then administrators.

Her political activism, fierce fights against the feudal system, strong stand taken for the women cause and exceptional administrative acumen garnered her the nickname ‘iron lady’. She was the lone surviving member of the first Kerala legislative assembly headed by EMS Namboothiripad in 1957 and the only woman in the first state cabinet.

She was married to late Communist leader TV Thomas, who was also her cabinet colleague. After the split in the Communist Party in 1964, Gowri joined the CPI (Marxist), while her husband remained with the CPI.