Rameshwari Nehru

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Rameshwari Nehru, born Rameshwari Raina (1886–1966), was a very prominent social worker of India. She worked for the upliftment of the poorer classes as well as for women. In 1902, she was married to Brij Lal Nehru, 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 elected President of All India Women's Conference in 1940, leading delegations to World Women's Congress in Copenhagen and the first Afro-Asian Women's Conference in Cairo (1961).

She won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1961.^[1]

Nehru–Gandhi family tree

Gangha Dhar Nehru

Bansi Dhar Nehru

Nandlal Nehru

Motilal Nehru
(1861-1931)

Swarup Rani

Shyam lal Nehru

Uma Nehru

Rameshwari Raina
(1886–1966)

Brij Lal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889-1964)

Kamala Kaul
(1899-1936)

Ranjit Sitaram Pandit

Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru
(1900-1990)

Gunottam Hutheesing

Krishna Nehru
(1907-1967)

Anand Kumar Nehru

Braj Kumar Nehru
(1909-2001)

Feroze Gandhi
(1912-1960)

Indira Priyadarshini
(1917-1984)

Chandralekha Mehta

Nayantara Sahgal
(b.1927)

Rita Dar

Harsha Hutheesing

Ajit Hutheesing
(b.1936)

Arun Nehru
(1944-2013)

Sonia Maino
(b.1946)

Rajiv Gandhi
(1944-1991)

Sanjay Gandhi
(1946-1980)

Maneka Anand
(b.1956)

Gita Saghal
(b. 1956/1957)

Ravi Hutheesing
(b. 1971)

Rahul Gandhi
(b.1970)

Priyanka Gandhi
(b.1972)

Varun Gandhi
(b.1980)

References

↑ Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World, 53.

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Name	Nehru, Rameshwari
Alternative names
Short description	Indian social worker
Date of birth	1886
Place of birth
Date of death	1966
Place of death

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