Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay is an actor in Hindi and Kannada cinema, credited on Mrcchakkatika (1931).

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (3 April 1903 – 29 October 1988) was an Indian social reformer. She worked for the promotion of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre in independent India to uplift the socio-economic standard of Indian women. She was the first woman in India to contest elections from Madras Constituency, but lost.

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