Nellie Sengupta (née Edith Ellen Gray; 12 January 1886 – 23 October 1973) was an English-Indian politician and social worker who fought for Indian Independence.

[2] On returning to India, Nellie's husband Jatindra Mohan started a very successful career as a lawyer in Calcutta.

In 1921 Jatindra Mohan joined the Indian freedom struggle and was Mahatma Gandhi's right-hand man in Bengal apart from being the Mayor of Calcutta for three terms and the head of the Legislative Assembly.

After his imprisonment during the Assam-Bengal Railwaymen's strike, she forcefully protested against the District authorities imposition of a ban on assembly, addressed mass meetings and courted arrest.

Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya the President elect of the Congress was arrested before the Calcutta Session of 1933.

At the initiative of then-Indian PM Indira Gandhi, she shifted to Calcutta for medical treatment and care.