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Chimnabai II
Maharani Chimnabai of Baroda
Born	1872
Died	1958  (aged 85–86)

Maharani Chimnabai II (1872 – 23 August 1958) was a queen and the second wife 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 1927-1928, as well as the president of the National Council of Women in India in 1928-1937.

Biography

Shrimant Gajarabai became Chimnabai II upon marrying Sayajirao Gaekwad in 1885.

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. She is the author of the treatise The position of Women in Indian Life (1911).

Her daughter Indira Devi became the consort of Jitendra Narayan, Maharajah of Cooch Behar.

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.

Further reading

• Moore, Lucy (2004) Maharanis: the lives and times of three generations of Indian princesses. London: Viking ISBN 0-670-91287-5
• Weeden, Edward St Clair (1911). A year with the Gaekwar of Baroda. Boston : D. Estes & Co.

• 1872 births
• 1958 deaths
• Baroda State
• Indian female royalty
• 19th-century Indian women
• 19th-century Indian people
• 20th-century Indian women writers
• 20th-century Indian writers
• Writers from British India