Rameshwari Nehru (née Rameshwari Raina; 10 December 1886 – 8 November 1966) was a social worker of India. She worked for the upliftment of the poorer classes and of women.
Career
She edited ''Stri Darpan'', a
Hindi
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monthly for women, from 1909 to 1924. She was one of the founders of
All India Women's Conference (AIWC) and was elected its president in 1942. She led delegations to the
World Women's Congress in
Copenhagen
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and the first
Afro-Asian Women's Conference in
Cairo
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(1961).
She was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a
world constitution. As a result, for the first time in human history, a
World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the
Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
Personal life
In 1902, she married
Brijlal Nehru, a nephew of
Motilal Nehru and cousin of the first prime minister of independent India,
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a pr ...
. Her son
Braj Kumar Nehru was an Indian civil servant who served as governor of several states.
Awards and honours
Nehru was awarded the
Padma Bhushan by the
Government of India
The Government of India (ISO 15919, ISO: Bhārata Sarakāra, legally the Union Government or Union of India or the Central Government) is the national authority of the Republic of India, located in South Asia, consisting of States and union t ...
for her social work, in 1955, and won the
Lenin Peace Prize in 1961.
Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad (born 1967) is an Indian-born American, author, journalist, political commentator, and Marxism, Marxist intellectual."I came to Marxism against my self-interest. Born into affluence, I was raised in an revolutionary city (Calcutta, ...
(2008) ''The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World''. New Pres. p, 53.
References
Further reading
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* «View of I primi passi del femminismo indiano: Rameshwari e Uma Nehru nell'India di inizio Novecento , Storia delle Donne», 10 luglio 2020. https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/sdd/article/view/2520/2520.
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1886 births
1966 deaths
20th-century Indian educators
20th-century Indian women educators
20th-century Indian journalists
Nehru–Gandhi family
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in social work
Women Indian independence activists
Indian women's rights activists
Indian independence activists from Delhi
Indian women journalists
Indian women publishers
Indian publishers (people)
Women writers from Delhi
Journalists from Delhi
Social workers from Delhi
Women educators from Delhi
Educators from Delhi
World Constitutional Convention call signatories