Shyam Kumari Khan

Shyam Kumari Khan née Nehru (20 October 1904 – 9 June 1980) was an Indian lawyer, freedom fighter, politician and social worker.

[1] A lawyer by profession, she defended Yashpal, a writer, freedom fighter and political prisoner, during his trial in 1932 when he was imprisoned for his attempts to overthrow the British Empire.

On 30 May 1952, she became one of the founding members of the Indian Council for Child Welfare (ICCW) along with other notable personalities such as Indira Gandhi, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur and B. Shiva Rao.

Under the chairmanship of Radha Raman and Shyam Kumari Khan, the ICCW organized an International Children's Fair in Delhi which was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on 17 October 1969.

[7] She was also a founding member of the Indian Humanist Union, of which she became an elected chairman after the death of Narsingh Narain in 1972.