Women's Studies frontrunner, academician, social activist.
Spouse
Akshay Ramanlal Desai
(m. 1947)
Children
Mihir Desai
Academic background
Thesis
Gujarati Society in Nineteenth Century: an Analysis of Social Change (1965)
Doctoral advisor
I. P. Desai
Neera Desai (1925 — 25 June 2009) was one of the leaders of Women's Studies in India and was noted for her contributions as a professor, researcher, academician, political activist, and social worker.[1] She founded the first of its kind Research Centre for Women's Studies and the Centre for Rural Development in 1974. She joined the SNDT Women's University in 1954 and was a part of various governing bodies as a professor and the Head of Department of Sociology (post-graduate).[2]
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^"Neera Desai (1925-2009): Pioneer of Women's Studies in India". Economic and Political Weekly. 50 (23). 5 June 2015.
NeeraDesai (1925 — 25 June 2009) was one of the leaders of Women's Studies in India and was noted for her contributions as a professor, researcher, academician...
President of the Indian Sociological Society. He married NeeraDesai in 1947, and they had a son, Mihir Desai, presently a human rights lawyer and an advocate...
Supreme Court of India. Mihir Desai is the son of NeeraDesai, a leading advocate of Women's Rights in India, and Dr. A.R. Desai, one of India's pioneering...
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Overview of Caste in Gujarat. Hindustan Publishing Company. pp. 5, 134. Desai, Neera (1978). Social Change in Gujarat [A Study of Nineteenth Century Gujarati...
English. Some notable interviewees include Ai Xiaoming, Flavia Agnes, NeeraDesai, Dora María Téllez, Sofia Montenegro, Grace Lee Boggs, and Holly Hughes...
ISBN 978-0-19-568429-2. Retrieved 18 June 2017. Desai 1978, p. 445. Isaka 2022, p. 83. Isaka 2022, p. 70. Isaka 2022, p. 84. Desai, Neera (1978). Social Change in Gujarat...
our town) is a 1996 Indian Kannada-language film directed by Sunil Kumar Desai starring Shiva Rajkumar, Ramesh Aravind and Prema in lead roles. It's considered...
Indian Biography. COSMO Publications. p. 417. ISBN 978-81-7020-897-6. Desai, Neera (1978). Social Change in Gujarat [A Study of Nineteenth Century Gujarati...
Political Economy at Columbia University and is also the Director of Deepak and Neera Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies at School of International and Public...
1970s. Bhushan represented the CPIL in a petition asking for the removal of Neera Yadav from office as Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh for alleged corruption...
USA: Pennsylvania State University press. p. 285. ISBN 0271--01980-8. Desai, Neera (1978). Social Change in Gujarat: A Study of Nineteenth Century Gujarati...
and three of the Nehru rights are included in the Directive Principles". Neera Chandhoke’s in her chapter in The Indian Constituent Assembly (edited) argued...
Gandhi being known for her anti-communist stance in the 1950s with Meghnad Desai even describing her as "the scourge of [India's] Communist Party." Yet,...
X, Eds., James Hastings and Clark Edinburg, Second Impression, 1930. DesaiNeera, Women in India, Bombay: Vora Publishers, 1957. Dubois Abbe J.A and Beachampes...
Desai, Neera (1978). Social Change in Gujarat [A Study of Nineteenth Century Gujarati Society]. Vora & Co. pp. 94–143. Desai 1978, p. 148-176. Desai 1978...
Choudhury Chhaya Shurjo Ghentoo 1964 Subha O Debatar Gras Kinu Gowalar Gali Neera Kashmir Ki Kali Champa Hindi 1965 Waqt Renu Khanna Dak Ghar Herself Guest...
worked in the corporate world before his death at the age of 37, his wife Neera Shastri was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party national executive. Other...
Shanti Jain and Sharda. Pahile Pahil... - produced by Neetu Chandra, Nitin Neera Chandra and Anshuman Sinha - has been released under the banners of Swar...
Lalbaug. A popular play, Cotten 54, Polyester 64, has been written, based on Neera Adarkar and Meena Menon's book, One hundred years, One hundred voices. The...
(PhD). Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu: Bharathiar University. hdl:10603/101938. Desai, Neera; Thakkar, Usha (2001). Women in Indian Society (1st: 2004 reprint ed...
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