For the British novelist, see Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Renana Jhabvala
Born
Delhi
Nationality
Indian
Alma mater
University of Delhi, Harvard University, Yale University
Occupation
Social worker
Awards
Padma Shri 1990
Renana Jhabvala is an Indian social worker based in Ahmedabad, India, who has been active for decades in organising women into organisations and trade unions in India, and has been extensively involved in policy issues relating to poor women and the informal economy. She is best known for her long association with the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), India, and for her writings on issues of women in the informal economy.[1]
In 1990, she was awarded a Padma Shri from the Government of India for her contributions in the field of social work.[2] In April 2012, she became Chancellor of Gandhigram Rural Institute, a Deemed University in Tamil Nadu, India.
^"Author Page". openDemocracy. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
^"Padma Awards Directory (1954–2009)" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 May 2013.
RenanaJhabvala is an Indian social worker based in Ahmedabad, India, who has been active for decades in organising women into organisations and trade...
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"embarrassment" to the Modi government. Khare is married to the social worker RenanaJhabvala.[citation needed] "Harish Khare resigns as media advisor to PM". IBN...
partnership with UNICEF, British researcher Guy Standing and Indian activist RenanaJhabvala, providing 200 rupees per month per adult and 100 rupees per child...
studies in employment and status, with Leela Kasturi, Sulabha Brahme, RenanaJhabvala. ICSSR. Chanakya Publications, 1990. ISBN 978-81-70010-73-9. Legislative...
UNICEF. Chen, Martha, Joann Vanek, Francie Lund, James Heintz with RenanaJhabvala, and Christine Bonner. 2005. "Employment, Gender, and Poverty," in...
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