Shareefah Hamid Ali
Shareefah Hamid Ali , also Begum Shareefa Hamid Ali (born December 12, 1883 in Baroda (state) in the west Indian Gujarat , † probably 1971 ) was an Indian diplomat and politician.
origin
Begum Shareefach Hamid Ali was born in 1883 in one of the leading Muslim families in the British-Indian administrative center of Baroda in Gujarat , West India . Her father was the judiciary Abbas J. Tyabji, who had become a staunch supporter of Mahatma Gandhi after the Amritsar massacre in 1919 . Gandhi tasked him with continuing the Salt Rebellion after his own arrest. Ali's mother, Amina, was one of the first prominent Muslim women to take off the parda . In 1910 Ali married her cousin Hamid Ali. Her brother-in-law described her as an eloquent nationalist and a strong-willed, determined campaigner for social rights, particularly interested in the upbringing of girls and the social advancement of non-urban women ... which had strong political undertones at the time ... which she made no secret about.
Social and political work
Ali was involved in various areas. For example, she set up hospital wards in various cities and developed educational programs for women from rural areas in the Satara District .
Ali began her political career as a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. She became president of the All India Women's Conference in 1935 . Along with Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit , Hansa Jivraj Mehta and Lakshmi N. Menon , she was one of the women who also represented India on an international level. In 1947 she was a founding member of the UN Women's Rights Commission and worked on the formulation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights .
Fonts
- East and West in Cooperation (1935) from Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History , Tiffany K. Wayne (Ed.), Pp. 514 ff., Greenwood, 2011, ISBN 9780313345807
literature
- Inscribing South Asian Muslim Women: An Annotated Bibliography & Research Guide , Tahera Aftab, Koninklijkke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008, ISBN 9789004158498
- Women in India: A Social and Cultural History , Sita Anantha Raman, Praeger, Santa Barbara, 2009, ISBN 031301440X
- Routledge Revivals: Muslim Women Enter a New World , Ruth Frances Woodsmall, 1936, ISBN 131539684X
- The resurgence of Indian women , Aruṇā Āsaf Ali, GNS Raghavan, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, p. 121, 1991
- Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries , Kumari Jayawardena, Institute of Social Studies, 1982
- Moslem Women Enter a New World , Ruth Frances Woodsmall, Round table Press, Incorporated, 1936
Web links
- Photo of the first session of the UNCSW on February 12, 1947
- Photo from the second session of the UNSCW on January 5, 1948
- Business Standard , Press Trust of India, May 23, 2018, accessed December 25, 2018
- United Nations website on the 70th anniversary of the UN Human Rights Charter, accessed December 25, 2018
- Encyclopedia of India, Thomson Gale (Eds.), Sita Anantha Raman, Women and Political Power , 2006, accessed December 25, 2018
swell
- ↑ a b c https://books.google.de/books?id=JDhWjBzEkosC&pg=PA514&lpg=PA514&dq=Shareefah+Hamid+Ali&source=bl&ots=ewe8E_bFDm&sig=HLaIIyS9HXA0kQCnZ9y9Ks88qvE&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwid4NfbnrffAhVEFywKHbNUAfIQ6AEwC3oECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q=Shareefah%20Hamid% 20Ali & f = false Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History , Tiffany K. Wayne (Ed.), Pp. 514 ff., Greenwood, 2011, ISBN 9780313345807
- ↑ https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/pivotal-role-of-women-trailblazers-from-india-developing-nations-in-un-lauded-118052300346_1.html Business Standard , Press Trust of India, May 23, 2018, accessed December 25, 2018
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SURNAME | Ali, Shareefah Hamid |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ali, Begum Shareefah Hamid |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1883 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Baroda |
DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: 1971 |