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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.<ref name=Taylor2018>{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Miles |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=radvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA202 |title=Empress: Queen Victoria and India |date=2018 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-11809-4 |location=New Haven |pages=202 |language=en |chapter=9. Mother of India}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web | title = Past Presidents | publisher = AIWC: All India Women's Conference | url = http://www.aiwc.org.in/past-presidents.html | accessdate = 2014-03-19 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140319132613/http://www.aiwc.org.in/past-presidents.html | archivedate = 19 March 2014 | df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="ForbesForbes1999">{{cite book|author1=Geraldine Forbes|author2=Geraldine Hancock Forbes|title=Women in Modern India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjilIrVt9hUC&pg=PA79|date=28 April 1999|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-65377-0|pages=79–}}</ref> She is the author of the treatise ''The position of Women in Indian Life'' (1911).<ref name=Tow2014>{{cite book |last1=Jhala |first1=Angma Dey |editor1-last=Towheed |editor1-first=Shafquat |title=New Readings in the Literature of British India, c. 1780-1947 |date=2014 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-3-8382-5673-3 |pages=193–209 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qFcxBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA193 |language=en |chapter=8. Memoirs of Maharanis: the politics of marriage, companionship, and love in late-colonial princely India }}</ref>
Her daughter [[Indira Devi]] became the consort of [[Jitendra Narayan]], Maharajah of [[Cooch Behar]].<ref name=Poddar2015>{{cite book |last1=Poddar |first1=Abhishek |last2=Gaskell |first2=Nathaniel |last3=Pramod Kumar |first3=K. G |last4=Museum of Art & Photography (Bangalore |first4=India) |title=Maharanis: women of royal India |date=2015 |publisher=Mapin Publishing|location=Ahmedabad |isbn=978-93-85360-06-0 |chapter=Catalogue|pages=75–105 |oclc=932267190 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/932267190 |language=English}}</ref>
==Works==
* {{cite book|author1=Chimnabai II (Maharani of Baroda.)|author2=Siddha Mohana Mitra|title=Position Of Women In Indian Life|url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/pv4ss94n/items?canvas=14|year=1911|publisher=Longman's, Green & Co.|location=New York}}
== References ==
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==Further reading==
*[[Lucy Moore (historian)|Moore, Lucy]] (2004) ''Maharanis: the lives and times of three generations of Indian princesses''. London: Viking {{ISBN|0-670-91287-5}}
*{{cite book |last1=Weeden |first1=Edward St Clair |title=A year with the Gaekwar of Baroda |date=1911 |publisher=Boston : D. Estes & Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924024069811/page/n15/mode/2up?q=maharani}}
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[[Category:1872 births]]
[[Category:1958 deaths]]
[[Category:Baroda State]]
[[Category:Indian female royalty]]
[[Category:19th-century Indian women]]
[[Category:19th-century Indian people]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian women writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian writers]]
[[Category:Writers from British India]]
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