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{{Infobox person<br />
|name = Kamal Kumari Barooah<br />
|image = kamal_kumari_barooah.jpg<br />
|alt = <br />
|caption = <br />
|birth_date = 1899<br />
|birth_place = Borelengi Satra, Assam<br />
|death_date = {{Death year and age|1978|1899}}<br />
|death_place = Assam<br />
|other_names = ''Aaita''<br />
|known_for = Pioneer woman,<br> Entrepreneur in a male-dominated society<br />
|occupation = <br />
|nationality = Indian<br />
|citizenship = Indian<br />
|spouse = [[Siva Prasad Barooah]]<br />
|children = [[Hemendra Prasad Barooah]]<br />
|parents = Mahendranath Mahanta (father)<br> Swarnalata Mahanta (mother)<br />
}}<br />
'''Kamal Kumari Barooah''' ([[Assamese language|Assamese]]: '''কমল কুমাৰী বৰুৱা''') (1899–1978) was the matriarch of the Khongiya Barooah family of Thengal, [[Assam]]. She was born to Mahendranath Mahanta and Swarnalata Mahanta at Borelengi Satra. In 1917, she married [[Siva Prasad Barooah]] of Khongiya Barooah family, the family that emerged as the champion of Assamese interests and repository of Assamese culture and traditions. Noted Indian entrepreneur, tea planter and philanthropist [[Hemendra Prasad Barooah]] was her son.<ref name="Online Assam">{{cite web | url=http://onlineassam.blogspot.ae/2013/08/dr-hemendra-prasad-barooah-life-works.html | title=Online Assam | publisher=Online Assam | date=2014 | accessdate=October 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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After her husband's death in 1938, she had to handle the huge Thengal household alone, starting from running their tea-gardens to retaining the family properties for her children. In order to run their businesses, she educated herself in English as well as in tea craft.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Deka|first1=Meeta|title=Women's Agency and Social Change: Assam and Beyond|date=2013|publisher=SAGE Publications India|isbn=9788132116547|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OZb-AAAAQBAJ&q=Kamal+Kumari+Barooah+hasband&pg=PA71|accessdate=30 October 2017|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==K K Foundation==<br />
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[[The Kamal Kumari Foundation]] was instituted in her fond memory in 1990. It has been conferring the [[Kamal Kumari National Award]] since 1991 to individual or group for outstanding contributions to the field of Art, Culture & Literature and Science & Technology. The other award the foundation has been conferring is the [[Siva Prasad Barooah National Award]] in journalism.<ref>{{cite news|title=Call to keep alive Hemen Barooah's ideals|url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=aug3013/at094|accessdate=30 October 2017|publisher=The Assam Tribune}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Siva Prasad Barooah]]<br />
*[[The Kamal Kumari Foundation]]<br />
*[[Kamal Kumari National Award]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://kkfindia.org/founders.html Official website]<br />
*[http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=apr2009/at02 Kamal Kumari awards announced]<br />
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[[Category:People from Nagaon district]]<br />
[[Category:Indian humanists]]<br />
[[Category:Indian planters]]<br />
[[Category:1899 births]]<br />
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[[Category:Businesswomen from Assam]]<br />
[[Category:Businesspeople from Assam]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian businesspeople]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian businesswomen]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian philanthropists]]<br />
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