Hansa mehta biography of mahatma gandhi

Indian activist, educator, and writer (1897–1995)

Hansa Jivraj Mehta (3 July 1897 – 4 April 1995)^[1] was a reformist, social activist, educator, independence activist, feminist and writer from India.^[2][3] She was one of only two women delegates working alongside Eleanor Roosevelt in the UN Human Rights Commission 1946-48 ensuring the wording "all human beings" instead of "all men" in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.^[4]

Early life

Hansa Mehta was born in a Nagar Brahmin family on 3 July 1897 in Surat, now Gujarat.^[5] She was a daughter of Manubhai Mehta, philosophy professor at Baroda College (now Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda)^[5] and later Dewan of Baroda State, and the granddaughter of Nandshankar Mehta, a headmaster of an English-language school, civil servant, and the author of the first Gujarati novel Karan Ghelo.^[1][6][5] Her mother was H