[1] Along with Margaret Cousins and Annie Besant, she established the Women's Indian Association in 1917, and was active in efforts to end child marriage and female illiteracy in India.
She was born as Dorothy May Graham in the United Kingdom, and married Sri Lankan Theosophist, Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa on 11 November 1916.
The WIA was very politically active, advocating against child marriage, engaging in philanthropy, and supporting suffragist efforts.
[4] In 1918, at the Malabar District Conference of the Indian National Congress, Jinarajadasa successfully moved a resolution in support of female suffrage, which was passed unanimously.
[9] While traveling with her husband between Vienna and Madras, she visited a number of such organizations along the way, and particularly, addressed meetings for women in Basrah, Iraq.
[6][11] In 1934, Jinarajadasa led early efforts to raise the age of marriage and consent for women to 16, in the Madras Presidency.