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Hansa Jivraj Mehta (3 July 1897 – 4 April 1995) [1] was a reformist, social activist, educator, independence activist, feminist and writer from India. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She was one of only two women delegates working alongside Eleanor Roosevelt in the UN Human Rights Commission 1946-48 ensuring the wording "all human beings" instead of "all men" in ...
- Early Life
- Role in India’s Independence Movement
- Contribution to Constitution Making
- Later Contributions
Hansa Jivraj Mehta was born on 3rd July 1897 in Surat, Gujarat. She studied philosophy at Baroda College and then journalism and sociology in England. In 1920, while in London, Mehta met Sarojini Naidu who would later introduceher to Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian women’s freedom movement. Mehta’s political career was marked by her 1937 Bombay Legis...
Mehta participated in the non-cooperation and swadeshi movements. Her involvement with India’s freedom struggle got her arrestedin 1932.
Mehta was one of the 15 women framers of the Indian Constitution. She was electedto the Constituent Assembly from Bombay under a Congress Party ticket. In the Assembly, she strongly argued in favour of women’s rights and intervened in debates on uniform civil code and reservation. Mehta’s speech in the Assembly on 15th August 1947.
Mehta was the Indian delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. She played a significant role in ensuring that Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (‘UDHR’) was made inclusive and is credited to changing the phrase “All men are born free and equal” to “All human beings are born free and equal”. Hansa Mehta and Eleanor...
Jun 25, 2024 · Born on July 3, 1897 in Gujarat, Hansa Jivraj Mehta was a prominent Indian scholar, educator, social reformer and writer. Mehta extensively worked for women’s rights throughout her...
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Jul 7, 2020 · In 1959, for her distinguished service, Hansa Mehta was awarded the Padma Bhushan. The following year, her husband Jivraj Mehta became the first chief minister of Gujarat. In 1964, he became India’s High Commissioner in London and Jawaharlal Nehru specifically asked that Hansa accompany him.
Jan 24, 2018 · Born on July 3, 1897 to the Dewan of Baroda Manubhai Nandshankar Mehta, Hansa studied journalism and sociology in England. It was here in 1918 that she met Sarojini Naidu and thus Mahatma Gandhi. “When Gandhiji was arrested in 1922, Sarojini Devi went to Ahmedabad with a group of women from Bombay.
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Mar 6, 2024 · Her name was Hansa Mehta, and she was to become famous as a nationalist leader, an early feminist, and the first woman Vice Chancellor of a co-educational Indian university. However, it is in the global history of human rights that Mehta occupies a special place.
Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897-1995) was a South Asian social activist and feminist. [1] [2] She studied philosophy at Baroda College. [1] She was one of the 15 women in the Constituent Assembly that drafted the Indian Constitution. [2] Mehta founded the Desh Sevika Dal in 1930. [2]
