title: Devaki Gopidas
text: # Devaki Gopidas
  
  Devaki Gopidas (1918-1973) was an Indian politician from Kerala. She was a Member of Parliament, representing Kerala in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of India's Parliament as a member of the Indian National Congress from 1962 - 1968.
  
  She was killed in the crash of Indian Airlines Flight 440 on May 31 1973.
  
  ## Education
  
  She completed schooling from Kottayam and college education from Government College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram. She entered into Congress politics in college. Later she studied law from Kolkata.
  
  ## Personal life and death
  
  She was born in an Ezhava family at Karappuzha, Kottayam district on 10 May 1918 to Arangaserry Narayanan and T K Narayani. She married Gopidas from Vezhapra and settled in Kolkata.
  
  Devaki died due to crash of Indian Airlines Flight 440 in 1973.
  
  