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Sharda Mehta was an Indian social worker, proponent of women's education, and Gujarati writer born on the 26th of June 1882 in Ahmedabad. She was among the first two women to earn a university degree in what is now Gujarat, and she founded welfare institutes, led public campaigns for the independence movement, and produced an autobiography, essays, and translations in Gujarati.
Sharda Mehta received a Bachelor of Arts in Logic and Moral Philosophy from Gujarat College in 1901. She and her elder sister Vidyagauri Nilkanth were the first two women to hold university degrees in what is now Gujarat.
Sharda Mehta promoted swadeshi goods and khadi cloth from 1906 and organised a 1917 protest against Girmitiya, the practice of indentured servitude. She appeared before the Royal Commission on Labour in 1929 on conditions in Ahmedabad's textile mills, picketed liquor shops during the civil disobedience movement in 1930, and served on the Ahmedabad Municipality from 1931 to 1935.
Sharda Mehta founded the Vanita Vishram Mahila Vidyalaya in Ahmedabad and established a college affiliated with SNDT Women's University. She also founded the Jyoti Sangh in 1934 for women's welfare and established Apna Ghar Ni Dukan, a co-operative store, in the same year.
Mehta published a children's story collection, Puranoni Balbodhak Vartao, and a biography of Florence Nightingale in 1906. She wrote Grihavyavasthashastra (1920) and Balakonu Gruhshikshan (1922), and completed her autobiography Jeevansambharana in 1938. With her sister Vidyagauri Nilkanth, she translated Romesh Chunder Dutt's novel Sansar as Sudhahasini (1907) and Chimnabai II's Position of Women in Indian Life as Hindustanma Streeonu Samajik Sthan (1915).
Sharda Mehta died on the 13th of November 1970 at Vallabh Vidyanagar, in what is now Gujarat. She was eighty-eight years old.