Krishna Riboud
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12 October 1926
Krishna Riboud | |
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| Born | Krishna Roy 12 October 1926 |
| Died | 27 June 2000 (aged 73) Paris, France |
| Alma mater | Wellesley College |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Christophe Riboud |
| Parents |
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| Relatives | Grand children : Penelope, Thomas, Raphaella |
| Family | Tagore family |
Krishna Riboud (née Roy; 12 October 1926 – 27 June 2000) was an Indian historian and art collector, specializing in Indian and Chinese antiquities and textiles.
Riboud began her textile collection in the 1950s, when she started purchasing Baluchari saris from Bengal,.[1] She was a member of the jury of the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.
Roy was born on 12 October 1926 in Dhaka, the daughter of Rajendra Roy, director of public health in East Bengal and Ena Tagore Roy. Her mother was a grandniece of Rabindranath Tagore. Her father died, when Roy was ten years old, and she was raised by her maternal uncle Soumendranath Tagore in Calcutta.[2][3] Her uncle was influential in her life. In 1983, she told The New Yorker, "My uncle, whom I had a passion for, was a revolutionary Marxist, and his Marxism was very different from the Communism we know now." She also recalled witnessing her uncle being arrested by British police and forced on to a train at Calcutta railway station.[3]
While on a visit to India, Lois Kellogg, daughter of Spencer Kellogg, Jr., the scion of a wealthy American family, fell ill and received treatment from Roy's father Rajendra. Spencer Kellogg, Jr. later helped secure the release of Soumendranath Tagore from prison. After returning to the United States, Lois Kellogg wrote a letter to Ena Tagore, requesting her to enroll her daughter at Wellesley College. Lois Kellogg also offered to serve as Krishna's guardian, and offered to let her spend her winter vacations at the Kelloggs' home in Scottsdale, Arizona, and weekends at their home in Connecticut. With her mother's permission, Krishna Roy left for Wellesley College in 1943. She received letters of introduction to John Dewey and Albert Einstein, both of whom knew her uncles. Krishna Roy visited John Dewey, who requested her not to study Western philosophy. She also visited Einstein at his home in Princeton.[3]
