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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Eshwari Bai<br />
| image =<br />
| caption = Eshwari Bai<br />
|birth_date = {{birth date|1918|12|01|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place =[[Chilkalguda]]<br />
|death_place = [[Hyderabad]]<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|1991|02|25|1918|12|01|df=y}}<br />
| occupation =Politician<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| party = [[Republican Party of India]]<br />
| children = [[Geeta Reddy]], daughter<br />
|office =Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly<br />
|term_start = 1967<br />
|term_end = 1978<br />
|predecessor = [[T. N. Sadalakshmi]]<br />
|successor = [[Tadur Bala Goud]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Jetti Eshwari Bai'''{{efn|''Eshwari'' is sometimes spelled ''Eashwari'' and as ''Eswari''. The name is sometimes conjoined as ''Eshwaribai''.}} (1 December 1918 – 25 February 1991) was an Indian politician, a [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]] and president of the [[Republican Party of India]]. She worked for the upliftment of the backward classes who were subjected to slavery and [[Caste system in India|caste discrimination]] for generations by the upper castes.<br />
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==Life==<br />
Eshwari Bai was born on 1 December 1918.<ref name="V9">{{Citation|last=V6 News Telugu|title=Special Discussion On Biography of Eshwari Bai {{!}} 7PM Discussion – V6News|date=2015-12-02|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhCcgFhvQnc|accessdate=2017-07-18}}</ref>{{citation needed|date=July 2017}} She started her career as a teacher in Paropakarini School in [[Secunderabad]] and later started a school named Geetha Vidyalaya in Chilkalguda, Secunderabad. She held workshops for the poor women of the locality, who learned crafting, tailoring, painting etc., helping economically poor women to secure to support themselves and their families.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}<br />
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Bai was elected as a [[councillor]] of the Secunderabad Municipal Corporation in 1950.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Dalits-justify-statue-for-Eswari-Bai/articleshow/3041351.cms|title=Dalits justify statue for Eswari Bai|date=15 May 2008|work=The Times of India|access-date=2017-06-06}}</ref><br />
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She founded the Civic Rights Committee (CRC) in the 1960s to contest the Hyderabad municipal elections as an apolitical party. It won four seats in those elections.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}<br />
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Inspired by [[B. R. Ambedkar]], Bai joined the [[Scheduled Castes Federation]] (SCF) and in 1958, when SCF was renamed as the Republican Party of India (RPI), she was elected as General Secretary. She went on to become the President of RPI later. In 1962 general elections she lost on RPI ticket from [[Yellareddy (Assembly constituency)|Yellareddy Assembly constituency]], but won in the 1967 polls.<ref name="V9" /> She was the Vice Chairperson of the [[Telangana Praja Samithi]] (TPS) and won a ticket in 1972 elections again from Yellareddy on an RPI – TPS ticket.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}<br />
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As a chairperson of the Women and Child Welfare, Bai was instrumental in bringing legislation for free education of girl students up to higher education. She was the secretary of Indian Conference of Social Welfare and member of the [[Indian Red Cross Society]].{{citation needed|date=July 2017}} She also fought for separate statehood for [[Telangana movement|Telangana]] in 1969 and was imprisoned at the Chanchalguda jail in Hyderabad.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ntnews.com/Nipuna-Education/%E0%B0%89%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8B-%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A1-%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A3%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81-15-2-480792.aspx|title=ఉద్యమంలో సబ్బండ వర్ణాలు|date=2017-06-01|work=Namaste Telanganaa|access-date=2017-07-18}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Bai had four brothers and a sister. She was married to Jetti Laxminarayana, a dentist from [[Pune]], at the age of 13.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}} Her daughter, [[J. Geeta Reddy]], is a politician with the [[Indian National Congress]] party.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/Its-all-in-the-family/article14755567.ece|title=It's all in the family|last=A. Saye|first=Sekhar|date=27 April 2007|work=The Hindu|access-date=2017-07-18}}</ref><br />
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Bai died on 25 February 1991.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/Eashwari-Bai-remembered/article15992112.ece|title=Eshwari Bai remembered|date=25 February 2010|work=The Hindu|access-date=2017-06-06}}</ref><br />
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The Eshwari Bai Memorial Award was instituted in her honour.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/Sukhdeo-Thorat-receives-Eashwari-Bai-Memorial-Award/article16738114.ece|title=Sukhdeo Thorat receives Eashwari Bai Memorial Award|date=1 December 2016|work=The Hindu|access-date=2017-07-18}}</ref><br />
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