She was 13 when the pioneering British anthropologist Verrier Elwin married her in 1940. She was 23 when he divorced her. For 56 years now, Kaushalya (or Kosi, as he called her) has lived in anoymity and penury. Their first son Jawahar Singh is dead as is second son, Vijay. Her husband sent her Rs 25 a month but it soon stopped. And all she got in the great intellectual's autobiography is two paragraphs. So, how did a tribal Gond girl come to call her son Jawahar? Check out:
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There is a lot more behind the story of Kaushalya’s and Elwin’s children, whose parentage is still disputed. Guha believes that Elwin was father to only Jawahar and not Vijay. Vijay died believing he was Elwin’s son. Any how, this is not all that was complicated. The numerous relationships of both Elwin (Bade Bhaiyya) and Shyamrao Hivale (Chotte Bhaiyya) has created a mass of confusion.
http://indialeaks.blogspot.com/2010/09/kachri-bais-1944-fir.html
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