Usha Chinoy

In the city of Jamnagar, she was the first elected female member of the municipal corporation and also Principal of the Sajuba Girls High School from the late 1940s till the early 1950s.

Her grandfather, poet and author[2] Vaidya Shastri Manishankar Govindji, founded the famous Atank Nigrah pharmacy,[3] an Ayurvedic firm of great repute, in Jamnagar in 1881.

[4] The firm had branches in Bombay (Mumbai), Calcutta (Kolkata),[5] Madras (Chennai), Poona (Pune), Karachi, Colombo, Rangoon (Yangon), Penang [6] and Singapore.

From 1964 to 1974, she was the founding head of the Department of Arts, Crafts and Music and teacher at the Rajkumar College, Rajkot.

She died in 2004 in Shanghai, China, and was survived by her three children, one of whom, Sujan R. Chinoy, was appointed Indian Ambassador to Mexico, and by five grandchildren.