Anutai Wagh (17 March 1910 – 1992)Biography of Anutai Wagh
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education in India. She was the professional colleague of

Tarabai Modak Tarabai Modak (19 April 1892-1973) was born in Bombay. She graduated from the University of Mumbai in 1914. She was married to a lawyer from Amravati, Mr. Modak. Later she got a divorce in 1921. She worked as a principal of a Women's College i ...

. She along with Modak pioneered a programme whose curriculum was indigenous, used low cost teaching aids and was aimed at holistic development of the participants. A. D. N. Bajpai describes her as a "towering social reformer". She was a recipient of the 1985

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. a Anutai Wagh Information Autobiography-From the hill of Kosbad

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