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Rameshwari Nehru
Rameshwari Nehru on a 1987 stamp
Born	Rameshwari Raina (1886-12-10)10 December 1886
Died	8 November 1966(1966-11-08) (aged 79)
Nationality	Indian
Citizenship	British Indian (1886-1947) Indian (1947-1966)
Occupation	Social worker
Spouse	Brijlal Nehru
Children	Braj Kumar Nehru
Relatives	Nehru-Gandhi family
Awards	Padma Bhushan (1955) Lenin Peace Prize (1961)

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) and was elected its president in 1942. She led delegations to the World Women's Congress in Copenhagen and the first Afro-Asian Women's Conference in Cairo (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. 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, and won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1961.

References

1. Sonia Gandhi, ed. (2004). Two Alone, Two Together: Letters Between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru 1922–1964. Penguin Books India. p. xxii. ISBN 9780143032458.
2. "Past Presidents". AIWC: All India Women's Conference. Archived from the original on 19 March 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
3. Sharma, d n (1969). Afro-asian Group In The U.n.
4. "Letters from Thane Read asking Helen Keller to sign the World Constitution for world peace. 1961". Helen Keller Archive. American Foundation for the Blind. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
5. "Letter from World Constitution Coordinating Committee to Helen, enclosing current materials". Helen Keller Archive. American Foundation for the Blind. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
6. "Preparing earth constitution". The Encyclopedia of World Problems - Union of International Associations (UIA). Global Strategies & Solutions - The Encyclopedia of World Problems. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
7. "Padma Awards Directory (1954–2013)" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 November 2017.
8. Vijay Prashad (2008) The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World. New Pres. p, 53. ISBN 9781595583420

Further reading

• Om Prakash Paliwal (1986). Rameshwari Nehru, Patriot and Internationalist. National Book Trust, India.
• «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.

• 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