Rameshwari Nehru

Indian social worker

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

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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]

She was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution.[4][5] 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.[6]

## Personal life

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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

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Nehru was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India for her social work, in 1955,[7] and won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1961.[8]

## References

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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

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* 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.

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Nehru-Gandhi family tree

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| | | | | | | | | Bansidhar Nehru| | Nandlal Nehru
(1845–1887)| | Motilal Nehru
(1861–1931)| | Swarup Rani Thissu
(1868–1938)|

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| Shyamlal Nehru| | Uma Nehru
(1884–1963)| | Rameshwari Raina
(1886–1966)| | Brijlal Nehru
(1884–1964)| | Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889–1964)| | Kamala Kaul
(1899–1936)| | | | Ranjit Sitaram Pandit
(1893–1944)| | Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru
(1900–1990)| | | | | | Gunottam Hutheesing| | Krishna Nehru
(1907–1967)|
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| Shyam Kumari Nehru
(1904–1980)| | Anand Kumar Nehru| | | | Braj Kumar Nehru
(1909–2001)| | Magdolna Friedmann
(1908–2017)| | Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
(1917–1984)| | Feroze Jehangir Gandhi
(1912–1960)| | Chandralekha Mehta| | Nayantara Pandit
(b. 1927)| | Rita Dar| | Harsha Hutheesing| | Ajit Gunottam Hutheesing
(1936–2017)
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(1944–2013)| | | | | | | | Sonia Maino
(b. 1946)| | Rajiv Gandhi
(1944–1991)| | Sanjay Gandhi
(1946–1980)| | Maneka Anand
(b. 1956)| | Gita Sahgal
(b. 1956/1957)| | | | | | | | | | Ravi Ajit Hutheesing
(b. 1971)|
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rahul Rajiv Gandhi
(b. 1970)| | Priyanka Gandhi
(b. 1972)| | Robert Vadra
(b. 1969)| | Feroze Varun Gandhi
(b. 1980)| | Yamini Roy Chowdhury|
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(b. 2000)| | Miraya Vadra
(b. 2002)| | | | Anasuya Gandhi
(b. 2020)|

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Padma Bhushan award recipients (1954–1959)

1954|

* Homi J. Bhabha
* Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
* Mahadeva Iyer Ganapati
* Jnan Chandra Ghosh
* Maithilisharan Gupt
* Amarnath Jha
* Ajudhiya Nath Khosla
* Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan
* Hussain Ahmad Madani
* Josh Malihabadi
* Vaikunthbhai Mehta
* Vallathol Narayana Menon
* A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar
* Palden Thondup Namgyal
* V. Narahari Rao
* Jamini Roy
* Sukumar Sen
* M. S. Subbulakshmi
* Kodandera Subayya Thimayya

1955|

* Fateh Chand Badhwar
* Lalit Mohan Banerjee
* Suniti Kumar Chatterji
* Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
* V. R. Khanolkar
* Sunder Das Khungar
* Rameshwari Nehru
* Prana Krushna Parija
* Madapati Hanumantha Rao
* Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker

1956|

* Rukmini Devi Arundale
* Rajshekhar Basu
* Dhyan Chand
* Zain Yar Jung
* C. K. Nayudu
* Muthulakshmi Reddi
* Kanwar Sen
* Vir Singh
* K. Srinivasan
* Mahadevi Varma

1957|

* Bhikhan Lal Atreya
* Balasaraswati
* Alagappa Chettiar
* Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
* Abid Hussain
* Mushtaq Hussain Khan
* Lakshmi N. Menon
* Radha Kumud Mukherjee
* Andal Venkatasubba Rao
* Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar
* Shyam Nandan Sahay
* Govind Sakharam Sardesai
* K. A. Nilakanta Sastri
* Basiswar Sen
* Siddheshwar Varma

1958|

* Salim Ali
* Vijaya Anand
* D. P. Roy Choudhury
* Jeahangir Ghandy
* N. S. Hardikar
* Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar
* Allauddin Khan
* K. P. S. Menon
* A. C. N. Nambiar
* Kuvempu
* Poola Tirupati Raju
* Kamalendumati Shah
* Rao Raja Hanut Singh
* Rustom Jal Vakil
* Surya Narayan Vyas
* Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia

1959|

* Sisir Bhaduri
* Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
* Ali Yavar Jung
* Hansa Jivraj Mehta
* Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar
* Tiruppattur R. Venkatachala Murthi
* Tenzing Norgay
* Bhaurao Patil
* Dhanvanthi Rama Rau
* Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta
* Mysore Vasudevachar
* Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar
* Ghulam Yazdani

# Posthumous conferral

* 1954–1959
* 1960–1969
* 1970–1979
* 1980–1989
* 1990–1999
* 2000–2009
* 2010–2019
* 2020–2029

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World Constitutional Convention call signatories

* Constitution for the Federation of Earth

* World Constitution Coordinating Committee
* Thane Read
* Philip Isely
* Margaret Isely
* Georgia Lloyd

Countries|

* Costa Rica
* Pakistan
* Senegal
* Sierra Leone
* Tanzania

Head of governments|

| Presidents|

* Edgar Faure
* Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich
* José Figueres Ferrer
* Julius Nyerere
* Léopold Sédar Senghor
* Muhammad Ayub Khan
* Otilio Ulate Blanco

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Vice-presidents|

* Jaramogi Oginga Odinga

Prime Ministers|

* Clement Attlee
* Milton Margai
* Tetsu Katayama

Governors|

* Culbert Olson
* Hiroo Ōhara

Mayors|

* E.C. Quaye
* Setsuo Yamada
* Shinzo Hamai

Politicians|

| International|

* Cornelis Berkhouwer

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National|

* Ahmed Ebrahim Haroon Jaffer
* Akira Kazami
* B. Satya Narayan Reddy
* Chiyo Sakakibara
* Diwan Chaman Lall
* Ezequiel Padilla Peñaloza
* Gerhard Jahn
* Hisato Ichimada
* Henry Usborne
* Ichirō Kiyose
* Inder Kumar Gujral
* Irène de Lipkowski
* John Foster
* Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
* Kenzō Matsumura
* Komla Agbeli Gbedemah
* Lewis Silkin
* N. G. Ranga
* Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli
* Patrick Wolrige-Gordon
* William Beveridge

Religious leaders|

* Abbé Pierre
* Dana McLean Greeley
* George MacLeod
* John Collins
* Martin Niemöller
* Michael Scott

Nobel laureates|

| Physics|

* Alfred Kastler
* C. F. Powell
* Hideki Yukawa
* Max Born

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Chemistry|

* Frederick Sanger (twice)
* Otto Hahn

Physiology or Medicine|

* Albert Szent-Györgyi
* Dickinson W. Richards
* Hermann Joseph Muller
* Macfarlane Burnet

Literature|

* Bertrand Russell
* Salvatore Quasimodo

Peace|

* John Boyd Orr
* Joseph Rotblat

Multiple|

* Linus Pauling (Chemistry & Peace)

Scientists|

* Charles C. Price
* Edward Condon
* Edris Rice-Wray Carson
* Harlow Shapley
* Jean Orcel
* Pitirim Sorokin
* Priyadaranjan Ray
* René Dumont
* Wilder Penfield

Human rights activists|

* Martin Luther King Jr.

Humanitarians|

* André and Magda Trocmé (Righteous Among the Nations)
* Brock Chisholm

Veterans|

* Hugh B. Hester

Varied Fields|

* Arthur Ernest Bishop (inventor)
* David Alfaro Siqueiros (Social realist)
* E. M. L. Odjidja (teacher)
* Edward J. Sparling (educator)
* Erich Kahler (scholar)
* Gregorio Bermann (humanist)
* Gerard Piel (science editor)
* Henri Laugier (scholar)
* Hugh J. Schonfield (scholar & pacifist)
* Kaoru Ōta (union leader)
* Kay Boyle (writer)
* Lloyd Morain (humanist)
* Mark Van Doren (writer & scholar)
* Maurício Campos de Medeiros (teacher)
* Oscar Niemeyer (architect)
* Ōuchi Hyōei (economist)
* Rameshwari Nehru (social worker)
* Satish Gujral (artist)
* Shigeri Yamataka (feminist)
* Sophia Wadia (theosophist)
* Stanley Slotkin (businessman)
* Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)
* Tamaki Uemura (YWCA executive)
* Tano Jōdai (teacher & pacifist)
* Toyohiko Kagawa (pacifist)

Related|

* World Committee for a World Constitutional Convention
* Provisional World Parliament

Other|

* World constitution
* World government
* World federalism

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* VIAF
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* United States

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