Rameshwari Nehru

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 monthly for women, from 1909 to 1924. She was one of the founders of All India Women's Conference (AIWC)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and was elected its president in 1942.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She led delegations to the World Women's Congress in Copenhagen and the first Afro-Asian Women's Conference in Cairo (1961).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

She was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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. 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 for her social work, in 1955,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1961.<ref>Vijay Prashad (2008) The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World. New Pres. p, 53. Template:ISBN</ref>

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.