# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leela-dube
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:30:50.744Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leela-dube"
name: "Leela Dube"
slug: "leela-dube"
description: "Leela Dube was a renowned anthropologist and feminist scholar, fondly called Leeladee by many. She had been married to the renowned anthropologist and sociologist Late Shyama Charan Dube. Leela Dube was the younger sister of the late classical singer Sumati Mutatkar. Her elder son Late Mukul Dube was an avid photographer. She is survived by her younger son, Saurabh Dube. Known for her work on kinship and in women's studies, she wrote several books including Matriliny and Islam: religion and society in the Laccadives and Women and kinship: comparative perspectives on gender in South and South‑east Asia."
tagline: "Indian anthropologist (1923-2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leela_dube.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-03-27"
deathDate: "2012-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
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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