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Women educators from Gujarat

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The list Women educators from Gujarat includes Medha Patkar, Ela Bhatt, Vidyaben Shah, Poornima Arvind Pakvasa and Hansa Jivraj Mehta. The list consists of 19 members.

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Gujarat
State in western India
  • 1.

    Medha Patkar
    Indian social activist
    Medha Patkar
    Overview: Medha Patkar (born 1 December 1954) is an Indian social activist working on various crucial political and economic issues raised by tribals, dalits, farmers, labourers and women facing injustice in India ...
    Date of birth: 1 December 1954
    Age: 70
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    Goldman Environmental Prize awardees 157T
    Social workers from Gujarat 21T
    Tata Institute of Social Sciences alumni 3T
  • 2.

    Ela Bhatt
    Indian lawyer and philanthropist
    Ela Bhatt
    Overview: Ela Ramesh Bhatt (born 7 September 1933) was an Indian cooperative organiser, activist and Gandhian, who found the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) in 1972, and served as its general ...
    Date of birth: 7 September 1933
    Date of death: 2 November 2022
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    Indian cooperative organizers 12T
    2022 deaths 7,250T
    20th-century women educators 739T
  • 3.

    Hansa Jivraj Mehta
    Indian activist
    Hansa Jivraj Mehta
    Overview: Hansa Jivraj Mehta (3 July 1897 – 4 April 1995) was a reformist, social activist, educator, independence activist, feminist and writer from India.
    Date of birth: 3 July 1897
    Date of death: 4 April 1995
    Age: 97 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century women educators 647T
    Women educators from Chandigarh 4T
    20th-century Indian scientists 214T
  • 4.

    Vidyaben Shah
    Indian activist
    Overview: Vidyaben Shah (born 7 November 1922) is an Indian social worker and activist known for her work with children, women and the elderly in India. While she was already serving as Vice-President, she was ...
    Date of birth: 7 November 1922
    Date of death: 19 June 2020
    Age: 97 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century women educators 647T
    2020 deaths 11,737T
    Social workers from Gujarat 21T
  • 5.

    Mirai Chatterjee
    Indian social worker (born 1959)
    Mirai Chatterjee
    Overview: Mirai Chatterjee is a leader of the Self-Employed Women's Association, SEWA (India). She joined SEWA in 1984 and was its General Secretary after its Founder, Ela Bhatt.
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    21st-century women educators 156T
    Scholars from Ahmedabad 15T
    Social workers from Gujarat 21T
  • 6.

    Poornima Arvind Pakvasa
    Indian social worker
    Overview: Poornima Arvind Pakvasa (5 October 1913 – 25 April 2016), known as the Didi of Dangs, was an Indian independence activist and social worker from Gujarat.
    Date of birth: 5 October 1913
    Date of death: 25 April 2016
    Age: 102 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Activist
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    20th-century women educators 647T
    Women centenarians 1,059T
    Social workers from Gujarat 21T
  • 7.

    Anandiben Patel
    Indian politician
    Anandiben Patel
    Overview: Anandiben Mafatbhai Patel (born 21 November 1941) is an Indian politician serving as the 28th and current Governor of Uttar Pradesh. She is also serving as Governor of Madhya Pradesh (additional charge) ...
    Date of birth: 21 November 1941
    Age: 83
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century women educators 647T
    Women state cabinet ministers of India 37T
    Women members of the Rajya Sabha 157T
  • 8.

    Kanak Rele
    Indian dancer and choreographer
    Kanak Rele
    Overview: Kanak Rele (11 June 1937- 22 February 2023) was an Indian dancer, choreographer and academic best known as an exponent of Mohiniyattom. She was the founder-director of the Nalanda Dance Research Centre ...
    Date of birth: 11 June 1937
    Date of death: 22 February 2023
    Age: 85 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Dancer
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century women educators 647T
    Women artists from Gujarat 12T
    Indian women educators 60T
  • 9.

    Renana Jhabvala
    Indian economist and social worker
    Overview: Renana Jhabvala is an Indian social worker based in Ahmedabad, India, who has been active for decades in organising women into organisations and trade unions in India, and has been extensively involved ...
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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  • 10.

    Indumati Chimanlal Sheth
    Indian politician
    Overview: Indumati Chimanlal Sheth (28 November 1906-11 March 1985) was an Indian independence activist, politician, social worker and educationist from Gujarat. Born in Ahmedabad and influenced by Mahatma Gandhi ...
    Date of birth: 28 November 1906
    Date of death: 1985
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Activist
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  • 11.

    Reema Nanavati
    Indian social worker
    Reema Nanavati
    Overview: Reema Nanavaty, is an Indian social worker, known for her humanitarian services as one of the leaders of Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA), alongside leaders like Mirai Chatterjee and Renana ...
    Date of birth: 22 May 1964
    Age: 60
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century women educators 647T
    Scholars from Ahmedabad 15T
    Social workers from Gujarat 21T
  • 12.

    Usha Chinoy
    Indian educationist and musician
    Usha Chinoy
    Overview: Usha Chinoy (1929–2004) was an Indian educationist and musician from Rajkot, Gujarat.
    Date of birth: 1929
    Date of death: 2004
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Educator
    Gender: Female
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  • 13.

    Padma Desai
    Economist
    Padma Desai
    Overview: Padma Desai (October 12, 1931 – April 29, 2023) was an Indian-American development economist who was the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor Emerita of comparative economic systems and director ...
    Date of birth: 12 October 1931
    Date of death: 29 April 2023
    Age: 91 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Economist
    Gender: Female
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    2023 deaths 2,363T
    Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 1,009T
    American women memoirists 721T
  • 14.

    Violet Alva
    Indian politician
    Violet Alva
    Overview: Violet Hari Alva (24 April 1908 – 20 November 1969) was an Indian lawyer, journalist and politician, and Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, and member of the Indian National Congress (INC). She was ...
    Date of birth: 24 April 1908
    Date of death: 20 November 1969
    Age: 61 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century Indian women judges 35T
    20th-century women lawyers 409T
    20th-century women judges 447T
  • 15.

    Kumudini Lakhia
    Indian dancer and choreographer
    Kumudini Lakhia
    Overview: Kumudini Lakhia (born 17 May 1930) is an Indian Kathak dancer and choreographer based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, where she founded Kadamb School of Dance and Music, an institute of Indian dance and music in ...
    Date of birth: 1930
    Age: 94
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Dancer
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century women educators 647T
    Women musicians from Gujarat 8T
    Artists from Ahmedabad 17T
  • 16.

    Usha Mehta
    Indian freedom fighter
    Usha Mehta
    Overview: Usha Mehta (25 March 1920 – 11 August 2000) was a Gandhian and freedom fighter of India. She is also remembered for organizing the Congress Radio, also called the Secret Congress Radio, an underground ...
    Date of birth: 25 March 1920
    Date of death: 11 August 2000
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century women educators 647T
    Social workers from Gujarat 21T
    Women from Gujarat 5T
  • 17.

    Geetanjali Lal
    Indian classical dancer and choreographer
    Geetanjali Lal
    Overview: Geetanjali Lal (born Geetanjali Desai; 6 Nov 1948) is an Indian Kathak dancer and choreographer.
    Date of birth: 6 November 1948
    Age: 76
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    20th-century women educators 729T
    Women musicians from Gujarat 11T
    Artists from Ahmedabad 21T
  • 18.

    Nikisha Jariwala
    Indian computer scientist
    Nikisha Jariwala
    Overview: Nikisha B. Jariwala (Hindi: निकीशा जरीवाला, Gujarati: નિકિશા જરીવાલા) (born 14 November 1985) is an Indian computer scientist. She is a professor in Smt. Tanuben & Dr. Manubhai Trivedi College of Info ...
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Educator
    Gender: Female
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    21st-century women educators 173T
    Indian women computer scientists 10T
    Educators from Gujarat 24T
  • 19.

    Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi
    Spouse of Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi
    Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi
    Overview: Jashodaben Modi (née Chimanlal Modi; born January 1952) is a retired Indian teacher and the wife of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Their traditional marriage was arranged in Vadnagar by their fa ...
    Date of birth: January 1952
    Age: 73
    Occupation: Educator
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    20th-century women educators 647T
    Women from Gujarat 5T
    Indian women educators 60T
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