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RAIJI, SHRIMATI JAYASHRI, B.A., Cong. (Bombay-Bombay Suburban—1952): D. of Sir Manubhai Mehta; B. Surat, October 26, 1895; ed. at Baroda College, Baroda; m. Shri N. M. Raiji, 1918: 2 S. and 2 D.; Social Worker; Chairman, Bombay Presidency Women’s Council, 1919, and served on the Rescue Home Committee; One of the Secretaries, Rashtriya Stree Sabha, 1920; Participated in picketing movement by Desh Sevika Sangh of foreign cloth and liquor shops, 1930; Ex-Member, Vanila Vishram Management Committee (Widows’ Home), Bombay; Ex-Fellow, Senate of the Bombay University and represented the university on the Bombay Municipal Corporation, 1939—43; Suffered imprisonment in ‘Quit India’ movement, 1942, for six months; Organized Swadeshi Exhibition to help swadeshi movement and Women’s Co-operative Stores, Bombay; Ex-Member, Syndicate of the Shrimati Nathibai-D-Thackersey University for Women, Bombay; Appointed on the Children’s Aid Society by the Government; Was made Honorary Magistrate and Justice of Peace in 1949; Was one of the Secretaries, Kasturba Gandhi Fund and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Distress Relief Fund Committee for relief to riot sufferers and displaced persons after the Partition; Member, Women’s Section of the Directorate of Relief and Rehabilitation, Government of Bombay; Member, Lady Irwin College Committee, Delhi; Chairman, Anti-T.B. After-care Committee, Bombay; Chairman, Bhagini Samaj Seva Mandir (doing welfare work for Harijans); Chairman, United Women’s Organisations Committee, Bombay; Vice-President, All India Women’s Conference, 1950—53.
Foreign travels: England and Europe.
Permanent address: “Arvind”, Darasha Road, Off Nepear Sea Road, Bombay—26. |