# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-devika
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:51:45.810Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-devika"
name: "J. Devika"
slug: "j-devika"
description: "Jayakumari Devika is a Malayali historian, feminist, social critic and academic from Kerala. She currently researches and teaches at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram as a professor. She has authored several books and articles on gender relations in early Kerala society. She is bilingual and has translated both fiction and non-fiction books between Malayalam and English. She also writes on gender, politics, social reforms and development in Kerala on publications like Kafila, Economic and Political Weekly and The Wire."
tagline: "Indian historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J_Devika.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump