# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neera-desai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:29:50.611Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neera-desai"
name: "Neera Desai"
slug: "neera-desai"
description: "Neera Desai was one of the leaders of Women's Studies in India and was noted for her contributions as a professor, researcher, academician, political activist, and social worker. She founded the first of its kind Research Centre for Women's Studies and the Centre for Rural Development in 1974. She joined the SNDT Women's University in 1954 and was a part of various governing bodies as a professor and the Head of Department of Sociology (post-graduate)."
tagline: "Professor, researcher, academician, political activist and social worker"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/Neera_Desai_photograph.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1925"
deathDate: "2009-06-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.07149066666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump