Ajita Chakraborty

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Ajita Chakraborty Was One of The First Women Psychiatrists Of India. Professor Ajita Chakraborty was born in Calcutta in the state of Bengal in 1926, at a time when the country was still a part of the British Empire. The city was the epicentre of British rule in India and had served as the capital of British India until 1911. Ajita's family had received Western education for generations and had been well connected, enterprising, urban middle-class with a streak of non-conformity that ran through generations. Throughout her early years Ajita was exposed to social inequalities, starting with the Bengal famine in 1943, followed by political unrest and riots in the backdrop of the Second World War. She lived through the granting of independence to India with the associated partition of the state of Bengal accompanied by unprecedented social displacement and uprooting that continued into the 1970s.
One of the first women psychiatrists of India, Dr Ajita Chakraborty's studies included the visual hallucinations of gods and goddess that she noted were particularly common in women. She has been a member of the World Psychiatric Association, Transcultural Psychiatry Section, for 25 years.

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