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{{short description|Indian educationist and political activist}}
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'''Hilla Rustomji Faridoonji''' (1872–1956) was an Indian educationist and political activist.<ref name="Nehru1990">{{cite book|author=Jawaharlal Nehru|title=Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=apQeAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund}}</ref>

She was secretary of the Women's Education Fund Association.<ref name="Brijbhushan2003">{{cite book|author=Jamila Brijbhushan|title=Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya: Portrait of a Rebel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIesPzzLIuUC&pg=PA51|date=June 2003|publisher=Abhinav Publications|isbn=978-81-7017-033-4|pages=51–}}</ref>

At the [[All India Women's Conference]] meeting in [[Madras]] in 1931-2, Faridoonji proposed the removal of caste distinctions and the abolition of separate schools for different religious sects.<ref name="Sinha2006">{{cite book|author=Mrinalini Sinha|title=Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xI2LClkTrFIC&pg=PA243|date=12 July 2006|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=0-8223-3795-9|pages=243–}}</ref> In 1935, she served as President of the AIWC,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aiwc.org.in/past-presidents.aspx|title=Past Presidents|website=All India Women's Conference|access-date=12 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309043554/http://aiwc.org.in/past-presidents.aspx|archive-date=9 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> and continued as a patron on the Standing Committee of the Conference.<ref>{{cite book|title=All-India Women's Conference, 17th Session (1944)|publisher=All-India Women's Conference|page=10}}</ref> She was a close associate of [[Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay]] and became a close friend of [[Mahatma Gandhi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.astro.gsu.edu/~hal/Hujer/Misc/Articles/Gandhi.html|title=Mahatma Gandhi, my host|author=Karel Hujer|access-date=12 November 2017}}</ref>

She was one of the first administrators of [[Lady Irwin College]] when it opened in 1932.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alumni.du.ac.in/archive-15/pdf/6%20Heritage/her%20011%20South%20Asia%20%20First%20Home%20Science%20College%20%20%20Lady%20Irwin%20College%201932.pdf|title=South Asia's First Home Science College|website=www.alumni.du.ac.in (archive)|access-date=12 November 2017}}</ref> She was its convenor and treasurer and continued to work for the college until her death.<ref name="Kiṇīkara1975">{{cite book|author=Rôya Kiṇīkara|title=Priyadarshini: International Women's Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8jMqAAAAYAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Yashodhara Publications}}</ref> In 1954 she opened the college's postgraduate accommodation in her role as President of the All India Women’s Education Fund Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ladyirwin.edu.in/download/annual-report/2015/LIC-2014-82nd%20AReport.pdf|title=82nd Annual Report 2014|publisher=Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi|access-date=18 November 2017}}</ref> The main hall of residence is now known as the Hilla Faridoonji Hall in her memory.

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