Maharani Chimnabai

Maharani Chimnabai (1872 – 23 August 1958), also known as Chimnabai II, was the second wife of 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.

Maharani Chimnabai
Maharani Chimnabai of Baroda
Born1872 Edit this on Wikidata
Died1958 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 85–86)

Biography

Shrimant Lakshmibai Mohite 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
  • Chimnabai II (Maharani of Baroda.); Siddha Mohana Mitra (1911). Position Of Women In Indian Life. New York: Longman's, Green & Co.

References
  1. 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.
  2. "Past Presidents". AIWC: All India Women's Conference. Archived from the original on 19 March 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  3. Geraldine Forbes; Geraldine Hancock Forbes (28 April 1999). Women in Modern India. Cambridge University Press. pp. 79–. ISBN 978-0-521-65377-0.
  4. 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.
  5. 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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