Hansa Mehta

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Hansa Jivraj Mehta ( Gujarati હંસા જીવરાજ મહેતા ; born July 3, 1897 in Surat , Presidency of Bombay ; † April 4, 1995 in Bombay , Maharashtra ) was an Indian reformer, social activist, educator, independence activist and writer.

Life

She wrote many children's books in Gujarati and translated many English stories, including Gulliver's travels . Her father was Manubhai Mehta and her grandfather was Nandshankar Mehta , the author of the first Gujarati novel, Karan Ghelo .

She was born a Nagar Brahman . She married Jivraj Narayan Mehta , a respected doctor and administrator. She picketed shops selling foreign clothing and alcohol and participated in freedom movement activities recommended by Mahatma Gandhi . She was arrested by the British and sent to prison.

She was elected to the Bombay Schools Committee in 1926 and was President of the All India Women's Conference from 1945 to 1946 . In her presidential address at the All-India Women's Conference in Hyderabad, she proposed a women's rights charter.

From 1945 to 1960 she held various offices in India. Among other things, she was Vice Chancellor of the SNDT Women's University , a member of the All India Secondary Board of Education , President of the Inter University Board of India and Vice Chancellor of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda .

Hansa Mehta was one of 15 women in the Constituent Assembly of India.

Your role in the constituent assembly

She was a member of the Advisory Committee and the Subcommittee on Fundamental Rights. She worked for equality and justice for women in India.

Activity at the United Nations

In addition to Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit , Shareefah Hamid Ali and Lakshmi N. Menon , Hansa Mehta was one of the women who also represented India on an international level. As one of only two female delegates to the UN Human Rights Commission in 1947/48, it was important to her to change the central part of the sentence "all men are created equal" ( Eleanor Roosevelt's favorite phrase ) to "all human beings", thus underlining the importance of Gender equality . In 1950 she became Vice President of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. She was also a member of the Executive Committee of UNESCO .

Awards

She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1959 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi By Stanley Wolpert, pp. 149
  2. ↑ Women Role Models: Some Eminent Women of Contemporary India By Gouri Srivastava 2006, pp. 14, 15, 16.
  3. ^ The women who helped draft our constitution .
  4. ↑ CADIndia .
  5. ^ Devaki Jain: Women, Development and the UN . Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2005, p. 20.
  6. ↑ www.un.int ( Memento from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Contemporary art in Baroda 1997, p. 267.
  8. ↑ Hansa Jivraj Mehta . Praful Thakkar's Thematic Gallery of Indian Autographs. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Mehta, Hansa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mehta, Hansa Jivraj (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian reformer, social activist, educator, independence activist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Surat , Presidency of Bombay
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1995
Place of death Bombay , Maharashtra