Swarup Rani Nehru

Swarup Rani Nehru
Swarup Rani in 1894
Bornc. 1868
Died10 January 1938(1938-01-10) (aged 70)
NationalityIndian
Political partyIndian National Congress
SpouseMotilal Nehru
ChildrenJawaharlal Nehru
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Krishna Hutheesing
FamilyNehru–Gandhi family

Swarup Rani Nehru (née Thussu, 1868 – 10 January 1938) was an Indian independence activist. She was the wife of barrister and Indian National Congress leader Motilal Nehru and the mother of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

She played a prominent role in India's freedom movement in the 1920s–30s as an advocate of civil disobedience against the British Raj and its salt laws, and encouraged women to make salt.


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