[5] Mehta studied at an all-girls high school at a time when, she estimated, only 2 percent of Indian women were literate.

[5] She was married to Jivraj Narayan Mehta, an eminent physician and administrator who was the first Chief Minister of Gujarat and eventually the Indian high commissioner to the United Kingdom.

[8] Hansa Mehta organized the picketing of shops selling foreign clothes and liquor, and participated in other freedom movement activities in line with the advice of Gandhi.

[9] She lobbied for civil code that would lead to gender equality, meant to eventually supersede religious laws.

As Srinivas recalls, "Under her leadership, the MS University began to be recognized by the cognoscenti as an innovative centre of learning.

She took a keen interest in the university's functioning and activities, and she had to intervene frequently to see that scholars could get on with their work and the administrative staff did not block their way.

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As the AIWC president, in December 1945, she had initiated and presided over the drafting of the Indian Women's Charter of Rights and Duties that was collectively prepared by Kitty Shiva Rao, Renuka Ray, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, and Hannah Sen.[20] When she was elected the Vice-President of the International Alliance of Women in August 1946, she had presented the Charter at its Interlaken Congress.

Eventually, she, along with Rajkumari Amrit Kaur were elected to the Fundamental Rights Sub-Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India and made some of the most significant interventions during its discussions.

The notes of dissent written by Hansa Mehta and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur include their objection to compulsory military service, the freedom of practice of religion, and the demand to make the Directive Principles of State Policy fundamental to the country's governance.

[22] These notes are considered as an expression of "women's determined refusal to be appropriated by the dominant discourses of the Constituent Assembly.

"[23] Hansa Mehta participated in the Constituent Assembly's discussions on the Hindu Code Bill during its legislative sessions.

Besides the Ramayana, she ensured that MS University Baroda undertook projects to publish other monumental works of classical India.

Mehta wrote several children's books in Gujarati, including Arunnu Adbhut Swapna (1934), Bablana Parakramo (1929), Balvartavali Part 1-2 (1926, 1929).