Rameshwari Nehru Explained

Rameshwari Nehru
Birth Name:Rameshwari Raina
Birth Date:10 December 1886
Nationality:Indian
Citizenship:British Indian
Indian
Occupation:Social worker
Spouse:Brijlal Nehru
Children:Braj Kumar Nehru
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. 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.

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)[1] and was elected its president in 1942.[2] She led delegations to the World Women's Congress in Copenhagen and the first Afro-Asian Women's Conference in Cairo (1961).[3]

Nehru was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India for her social work, in 1955,[4] and won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1961.[5]

She was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution.[6] [7] 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.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Two Alone, Two Together: Letters Between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru 1922–1964. Sonia Gandhi . 2004. xxii. Penguin Books India . 9780143032458 .
  2. Web site: Past Presidents . AIWC: All India Women's Conference . 19 March 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140319132613/http://www.aiwc.org.in/past-presidents.html . 19 March 2014 . dmy-all .
  3. Book: Sharma, d n. Afro-asian Group In The U.n. 1969.
  4. Web site: Padma Awards Directory (1954–2013). Ministry of Home Affairs. https://web.archive.org/web/20171117004138/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf. dead. 2017-11-17.
  5. [Vijay Prashad]
  6. Web site: Letters from Thane Read asking Helen Keller to sign the World Constitution for world peace. 1961 . 2023-07-01 . Helen Keller Archive . American Foundation for the Blind.
  7. Web site: Letter from World Constitution Coordinating Committee to Helen, enclosing current materials . 2023-07-03 . Helen Keller Archive . American Foundation for the Blind.
  8. Web site: Preparing earth constitution Global Strategies & Solutions The Encyclopedia of World Problems . 2023-07-15 . The Encyclopedia of World Problems Union of International Associations (UIA).