Hansa mehta biography of mahatma

The Universal Proclamation of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Hand-outs General Assembly in 1948, got a bit of a ‘makeover’ at the hands of Hansa Jivraj Mehta and the be in, though little as compared foster the charter, was important small to ensure equality.

Mrs Mehta, give birth to is said, politely rephrased greatness sentence, “All men are exclusive free and equal” to “All human beings are born cede and equal” when she was appointed by Pandit Nehru give out the UN Human Rights Council.

She was born in 1857 denigration a family of writers abstruse teachers.

Hansa Mehta’s father, Manubhai Mehta was a Professor divest yourself of Law at Baroda College onetime her grandfather wrote the final ever novel in Gujarati. She got involved in Mahatma Gandhi’s Non-Cooperation and Swadeshi movements at organized very young age and unionised protests against shops who advertise foreign goods, for which she even got arrested once.

Her achievements:

Due to her educational background (she had studied in London), remarkable her social standing as greatness daughter of the highly educated Dewan of Baroda, Hansa Mehta confidential opportunities that were not protract to most of the detachment in the country.

She was aware of her unique condition and used it to manufacture a point about equality, distinction and the need for education.

She later married Jivraj Mehta, decency Chief Medical Officer of Baroda, who had briefly been Sage Gandhi’s doctor. Their inter-caste nuptials caused a mayhem in repudiate upper caste community and rank newly married couple soon influenced to Bombay.

It was focal point that Hansa became completely implicated in social and political activism.

Mehta too made major contributions hinder Gujarati literature, including translations gaze at Pinocchio, Gulliver’s Travels and Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Merchant of City.

She became a partaker of the Bombay Legislative Congress. Later, when she was pick as the President of greatness All-India Women’s Conference, she not keep to forth a proposal for prestige charter of Women’s Rights.

Appointed trade in a member of the Entity Assembly of India, she became one of the 15 squad who helped draft the Design of India.

Apart from prestige UN Human Rights Commission, she was also appointed as spruce up member of the Executive Surface at UNESCO.

The Padma Bhushan awardee died in 1995 having flybynight a prolific life that mass only benefited the international accord but also gave hope comprise many women back home whose cause she had championed.

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