Taraben Premchand

Along with Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Nallamuthu Ramamurthi, and Lakshmi Menon she publicly advocated for universal suffrage, and made a personal representation to Lord Lothian and the Simon Commission for adult franchise in India, and to grant the vote to women.

She prepared this report with Hansa Mehta, Margaret Cousins, Faiz Tyabji, Hilla Rustomji Fardoonji, Shareefa Hamid Ali, Malini Sukhtankar and Lakshmibai Rajwade, and submitted it to the Second Round Table Conference, calling for universal franchise and opposing separate electorates on the basis of gender or religion.

[3] Premchand was also closely involved with the work of the Shraddhanand Ashram, a Hindu religious institution that helped provide care for orphaned and destitute children.

[1] In 1934, she was appointed as a trustee of the Jyoti Sangh, along with Zarina Currimbhoy, Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Lady Tanumati Girijaprasad, and Anasuyaben Ramniklal Parikh.

The Jyoti Sangh was an organisation established with support from Mahatma Gandhi, to provide education, training, and employment to women in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.