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{{Short description|Indian social worker}}
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'''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==
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)<ref>{{cite book|title=Two Alone, Two Together: Letters Between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru 1922–1964|editor=Sonia Gandhi |year=2004|page=xxii|publisher=Penguin Books India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cwB7ebB8TK8C&pg=PR22|isbn=9780143032458 }}</ref> and was elected its president in 1942.<ref>{{cite web | title = Past Presidents | publisher = AIWC: All India Women's Conference | url = http://www.aiwc.org.in/past-presidents.html | access-date = 19 March 2014 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140319132613/http://www.aiwc.org.in/past-presidents.html | archive-date = 19 March 2014 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> She led delegations to the [[World Conference on Women, 1980|World Women's Congress]] in [[Copenhagen]] and the first [[Afro-Asian Women's Conference]] in [[Cairo]] (1961).<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.130233|title=Afro-asian Group In The U.n|last=Sharma|first=d n|date=1969}}</ref>

She was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a [[world constitution]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Letters from Thane Read asking Helen Keller to sign the World Constitution for world peace. 1961 |url=https://www.afb.org/HelenKellerArchive?a=d&d=A-HK01-07-B149-F04-022.1.8 |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=Helen Keller Archive |publisher=American Foundation for the Blind}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Letter from World Constitution Coordinating Committee to Helen, enclosing current materials |url=https://www.afb.org/HelenKellerArchive?a=d&d=A-HK01-07-B154-F05-028.1.6 |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=Helen Keller Archive |publisher=American Foundation for the Blind}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Preparing earth constitution |publisher=Global Strategies & Solutions - The Encyclopedia of World Problems |url=http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/strategy/193465 |url-status=dead |access-date=2023-07-15 |website=The Encyclopedia of World Problems - Union of International Associations (UIA) |archive-date=19 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719215501/http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/strategy/193465 }}</ref>

==Personal life==
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==
Nehru was awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]] by the [[Government of India]] for her social work, in 1955,<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954–2013)|publisher=[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]]|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117004138/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2017-11-17}}</ref> and won the [[Lenin Peace Prize]] in 1961.<ref>[[Vijay Prashad]] (2008) ''The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World''. New Pres. p, 53. {{ISBN|9781595583420}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book|author=Om Prakash Paliwal|title=Rameshwari Nehru, Patriot and Internationalist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HbMiAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=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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