Isha Basant Joshi
Isha Basant Joshi (born Isha Basant Mukand nom de plume of Esha Joshi; 31 December 1908, date of death after 2004) was an Indian Administrative Service officer and poet. She published books under the name of Esha Joshi. She was the first Indian to be accepted into the "Bastion of the British" school of La Martiniere Girls High School in Lucknow, India.
Also recorded as E. B. Joshi · I. B. Joshi
Isha Basant Joshi
- Born
- 1908 · Lucknow.
- Died
- 2000 · Lucknow.
- Nationality
- India · British Raj · Dominion of India
- Occupation
- writer · poet · civil servant
- Education
- University of Lucknow · La Martiniere Lucknow
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Isha Basant Joshi (born Isha Basant Mukand nom de plume of Esha Joshi; 31 December 1908, date of death after 2004) was an Indian Administrative Service officer and poet. She published books under the name of Esha Joshi. She was the first Indian to be accepted into the "Bastion of the British" school of La Martiniere Girls High School in Lucknow, India.
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Early life and education
Early life and education
She was the first woman Indian Administrative Services officer of British India.
Joshi was born on 31 December 1908. After attending the La Martinere Girls High School, Lucknow, She went to Isabella Thoburn College and the Lucknow University, where she gained her Master of Arts. She undertook higher studies in Britain and then became a part of the Indian Administrative Services.
Career
Career
The first woman IAS officer of Independent India, Joshi was posted as Magistrate and then as Assistant Commissioner in Delhi. She held senior and honorable positions in various departments and became the Commissioner-cum-State-Editor of the District Gazette until 1996. She served in senior roles in the Ministry of Education. She edited a magazine before retiring from service in 1966. Joshi started her next phase of career as an author after her service as a civil servant of India. She published a number of books under the name of Esha Joshi as well as a gazateer about Bareilly under her own name in 1968. Her poetry was admired from several sources for its range of meters and "broader feminist mission".
Personal life
Personal life
In 2004, it was reported that Joshi, who at that time was a 96-year-old widow, was being looked after by distant relatives in the servant quarters of a mansion on Kabir Marg in Lucknow. Following media reports, she was taken inside. In 2016 a niece reported that she had died several years ago.
Major works
Major works
• Bareilly Gazateer in 1968. • The Jewel in the Case and other stories, • Spindrift: Poems, 1994, Writers Workshop • Sanctuary, poems, 1987
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- 1.Uncivil Treatment Shahira Naim The Tribune 14 November 2004, Chandigarh, India accessed July 2007
- 2.Isha Basant Joshi. The Lucknow Observer. 2017-05-31.
- 3.Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Bareilly. INDIAN CULTURE.
- 4.The Lucknow Observer January 2016
- 5.Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Bareilly, Year 1968 by srimati esha bhasanti joshi: Fine Hardcover (1968) Gyan Books Pvt. Ltd. www.abebooks.co.uk.
- 6.Esha Joshi at Alibris.com accessed July 2007
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