Central Figures

Sarojini Naidu Poet, nationalist leader, President of the Indian National Congress (1925), Governor of Maharashtra (1947–49).

Shareefah Hamid Ali Liaison Officer between AIWC and Europe 1935–36, member of United Nations Commission for the Status of Women 1947.

Amrit Kaur Liaison Officer between AIWC and Europe 1934–35, AIWC President 1938, Minister for Health in Indian Cabinet 1947–57, President of World Health Assembly 1950, Indian delegate to UNESCO and WHO.

Hansa Mehta AIWC co-founder and President (1946), member of United Nations Sub-Committee on the Status of Women (1946) and Commission on Human Rights (1947–52).

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Cabinet Minister for Health and Local Government in UP Government (1937–39), AIWC President 1941–43, leader of the Indian delegation to the UN, Ambassador to Moscow and Washington, High Commissioner in London.

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya Co-founder of AIWC and Congress Socialist Party, AIWC President 1944–45, member of Commission on Human Rights (1953).

Supporting Roles

Indian Women

Muthulakshmi Reddy Indian feminist, WIA leader, first woman legislator in India, member of Indian women's delegation in London in 1933.

Radhabhai Subbarayan Indian feminist, not supportive of Indian women’s delegation in 1933, appointed by the British to the Round Table Conferences (1930–31) and to League of Nations and ILO commissions (1934).

Jahan Ara Shah Nawaz Indian feminist, appointed by the British to the Round Table Conferences (1930–31) and to League of Nations and ILO commissions (1935), member of the Muslim League.

Ammu Swarninathan AIWC member, member of Indian women's delegation to League of Nations in 1933.

Keron Bose NCWI member, member of Indian women's delegation to League of Nations in 1933.

Indian Men

M. K. Gandhi Indian nationalist leader.

Jawaharlal Nehru Indian nationalist leader, first Prime Minister of India, brother of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.

Virendranath Chattophadhyaya Exiled Indian revolutionary, brother of Sarojini Naidu, brother-in-law of Kamaladevi Chattophadhyaya.

J.J. Singh President of India League of America.

European Women and Organisations

Annie Besant British Theosophist, Indian nationalist, first woman President of the Indian National Congress (1917).

Grace Lankester British member of WILPF and Liaison Officer between the ‘five friendly societies’/Liaison Group of British Women's Organisations and the AIWC.

Margaret Cousins Irish Theosophist, suffragist, Indian nationalist, cofounder of WIA and AIWC.

Margery Corbett Ashby British feminist, President of IWSA/IAWSEC, influential member of Joint Standing Committee of Women's Organisations in Geneva, visited AIWC meeting in 1935.