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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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'''Devaki Gopidas''' (1918-1973) was an Indian politician from [[Kerala]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Is CPI paying mere lip service to gender equality?|url=https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2019/03/08/cpi-gender-equality-women-candidates.html|access-date=2021-07-23|website=www.onmanorama.com}}</ref> She was a [[Member of Parliament]], representing [[Kerala]] in the [[Rajya Sabha]] the [[upper house]] of [[Parliament of India|India's Parliament]] as a member of the [[Indian National Congress]] from 1962 - 1968.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/d.pdf| title=RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 1952 - 2003 | publisher=[[Rajya Sabha]] | accessdate=22 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/publication_electronic/Women_Members_Rajya%20Sabha.pdf | title=Women Members of Rajya Sabha | publisher=[[Rajya Sabha]] | accessdate=22 November 2017 | pages=145}}</ref><ref name="Chopra1993">{{cite book|author=Joginder Kumar Chopra|title=Women in the Indian Parliament: A Critical Study of Their Role|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mjQ7zgQK9qcC&pg=PA470|accessdate=23 November 2017|date=1 January 1993|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-513-5|pages=470–}}</ref><ref name="Sabha">{{cite book|author=India. Parliament. Rajya Sabha|title=Parliamentary Debate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VSYfAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=23 November 2017|page=3879}}</ref>

== Education ==
She completed schooling from Kottayam and college education from [[Government College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram]]. She entered into Congress politics in college. Later she studied law from Kolkata.

== Personal life ==
She was born in an [[Ezhava]] family at Karappuzha, [[Kottayam district]] on 10 May 1918 to Arangaserry Narayanan and T K Narayani.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sadasivan|first=S. N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Be3PCvzf-BYC&dq=devaki+gopidas+c+kesavan&pg=PA666|title=A Social History of India|date=2000|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=978-81-7648-170-0|language=en}}</ref>

She married Gopidas from Vezhapra and settled in [[Kolkata]].

== Death ==
She died due to crash of [[Indian Airlines Flight 440]] in 1973.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Reporter|first=Our Staff|date=2004-06-01|title=Win back people's trust: Chandy tells politicians|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/win-back-peoples-trust-chandy-tells-politicians/article27620075.ece|access-date=2021-07-23|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

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[[Category:Rajya Sabha members from Kerala]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians]]
[[Category:Women in Kerala politics]]
[[Category:1918 births]]
[[Category:1973 deaths]]
[[Category:Women members of the Rajya Sabha]]

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