Wanda Dynowska (Umadevi) (30 June 1888 – 20 March 1971) Polish theosophist, writer, translator, publisher, social activist, promoter of intercultural exchanges between India and Poland, jogini, foundress of the Indian-Polish Library.
[2] In 1935, Dynowska came to India and got involved in new Hindu religious movements (with Ramana Maharishi, and philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti, among others).
She also became a close collaborator of Mahatma Gandhi supporting Indian movements for independence.
In 1944, together with another Polish Hindu Maurice Frydman, she founded the Indian-Polish Library in Madras, which became for more than thirty years a major editorial body for Polish translations of main Hindu religious texts (e.g. Bhagavat Gita, Mahabharata, Ramayana) as well as for contemporary Indian poetry and literature.
Living in their main centre in Dharmasala, Dynowska organized schools, education, and social infrastructure there.