When India became independent, the civil services opened up to new talent. But one woman dared to step into a space that had been unofficially closed to her gender. Chonira Belliappa Muthamma, who joined the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in 1949, became the first woman diplomat of India and a defining figure in the fight f
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