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Chandra Kanta Devi Malla/Nepal Picture Library
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Kathmandu | c.1935Chandra Kanta Devi Malla, known as the first“guruama†of Nepal, with other instructors and students. At the time when public education was seen by the ruling elites as perilous and women’s school unheard of, Chandra Kanta managed to convince the Rana government against the odds to let her open a girls’ school in Makhantole.Chandra Kanta Devi Malla Collection/Nepal Picture Library