Swarup Rani Nehru
Swarup Rani Nehru (née Thussu, 1868 – 10 January 1938) was an Indian independence activist. She was the wife of barrister and Indian National Congress leader Motilal Nehru and the mother of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
Swarup Rani Nehru
c. 1868
10 January 1938 (aged 70)
Indian
She played a prominent role in India's freedom movement in the 1920s–30s as an advocate of civil disobedience against the British Raj and its salt laws, and encouraged women to make salt.
Death and legacy[edit]
She died on 10 January 1938,[26] with her sister, son Nehru and daughters Sarup and Betty beside her.[1][21] Her sister died the following day.[21]
As well as the wife of Indian National Congress leader Motilal Nehru and mother of India's first prime minister Pandit Nehru, Swarup Rani was the mother of Vijayalakshmi Pandit who became the first woman president of the United Nations General Assembly, grandmother of India's only ever woman prime minister Indira Gandhi and great grandmother of Rajiv Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Varun Gandhi are her great great grandchildren.[1]
The Swarup Rani Nehru Hospital in Allahabad is named in her honour.[27][28]