Chimnabai II

Maharani Chimnabai II (1872 – 23 August 1958) was a queen and the second wife Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad of the princely state of Baroda, Gujarat, British India.

Shrimant Gajarabai became Chimnabai II upon marrying Sayajirao Gaekwad in 1885.

[1] A progressive woman, she worked toward education for girls, abolishing the purdah system and child marriage, and became the first president of the AIWC in 1927.

[2][3] She is the author of the treatise The position of Women in Indian Life (1911).

[4] Her daughter Indira Devi became the consort of Jitendra Narayan, Maharajah of Cooch Behar.