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Chimnabai II
Maharani Chimnabai of Baroda
Born 1872
Died 1958
(aged 85–86)
Maharani Chimnabai II (1872 – 23 August 1958) was a queen and the second wife Maharaja
Sayajirao Gaekwad of the
princely state of
Baroda , Gujarat,
British India . She is the author of the treatise
The position of Women in Indian Life (1911), and was the first president of the
All India Women's Conference (AIWC) in 1927-1928, as well as the president of the
National Council of Women in India in 1928-1937.
Biography
Shrimant Gajarabai became Chimnabai II upon marrying
Sayajirao Gaekwad in 1885.
[1]
A progressive woman, she worked toward education for girls, abolishing the purdah system and child marriage, and became the first president of the AIWC in 1927.
[2]
[3] She is the author of the treatise The position of Women in Indian Life (1911).
[4]
Her daughter
Indira Devi became the consort of
Jitendra Narayan , Maharajah of
Cooch Behar .
[5]
Works
References
^ Taylor, Miles (2018).
"9. Mother of India" . Empress: Queen Victoria and India . New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 202.
ISBN
978-0-300-11809-4 .
^
"Past Presidents" . AIWC: All India Women's Conference. Archived from
the original on 19 March 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2014 .
^ Geraldine Forbes; Geraldine Hancock Forbes (28 April 1999).
Women in Modern India . Cambridge University Press. pp. 79–.
ISBN
978-0-521-65377-0 .
^ Jhala, Angma Dey (2014).
"8. Memoirs of Maharanis: the politics of marriage, companionship, and love in late-colonial princely India" . In Towheed, Shafquat (ed.). New Readings in the Literature of British India, c. 1780-1947 . Columbia University Press. pp. 193–209.
ISBN
978-3-8382-5673-3 .
^ Poddar, Abhishek; Gaskell, Nathaniel; Pramod Kumar, K. G; Museum of Art & Photography (Bangalore, India) (2015). "Catalogue".
Maharanis: women of royal India . Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing. pp. 75–105.
ISBN
978-93-85360-06-0 .
OCLC
932267190 .
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