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| office = [[Member of Parliament]], [[6th Lok Sabha]]
| term_start = 1977
| term_end = 1980
| predecessor = [[A. Kevichusa]]
| successor = [[Chingwang Konyak]]
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1928|11|11}}<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZMrAQAAIAAJ&dq=Rano+M.+Shaiza | title=Encyclopaedia of women biography: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Volume 3 | publisher=A.P.H. Pub. Corp | author=Nagendra Kr Singh | year=2001 | isbn=9788176482646}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Phek]] Town, [[Nagaland]], India
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'''Rano M. Shaiza''' (11 November 1928 – 1 April 2015) was a [[Naga people|Naga]] politician and a member of the United Democratic Party. Shaiza is the only woman [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha|Member of India's Lower House]] from the state of [[Nagaland]] ever.

==Early life and education==
Shaiza was born to an [[Angami Naga]] family in [[Phek]] Town, Nagaland. Her father, Sevilie Iralu, was a doctor by profession.<ref name=ind1/> Her mother Vitulie-ü Iralu was the elder sister of the founder of the Naga separatist movement, [[Angami Zapu Phizo]].<ref name=ind1/>

Shaiza studied science at [[Cotton College, Guwahati]], and graduated from [[Saint Mary's College (Shillong)|Saint Mary's College]], Shillong.<ref name=ind1>{{cite web | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/rano-shaiza-nagalands-only-woman-mp-yet-dies/ | title=Rano Shaiza, Nagaland’s only woman MP | publisher=The Indian Express | accessdate=2017-07-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://morungexpress.com/a-woman-before-her-time-first-naga-woman-mp-laid-to-rest/ | title=A woman before her time: First Naga woman MP laid to rest | publisher=morungexpress.com | accessdate=2017-07-12}}</ref>

==Political life==
Shaiza was a schoolteacher before she joined the Naga separatist movement.<ref name=ind/> She was the first president of the Women's Federation which was part of [[Naga National Council]], and the first women president of the [[United Democratic Party (Meghalaya)|United Democratic Party]].<ref name=ind/> In the 1960s, during the early stages of the Naga movement, she was imprisoned for nineteen months.<ref name=ind/>

Shaiza contested her first general election in 1977 and defeated the sitting chief minister [[Hokishe Sema]] of the [[Indian National Congress]], making her the first woman [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha|Member of India's Lower House]] from the state of [[Nagaland]].<ref name=ind>{{cite web | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/nagalands-first-and-only-woman-mp-rano-shaiza-dies/ | title=Nagaland’s first and only woman MP Rano Shaiza dies | publisher=The Indian Express | accessdate=2017-07-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://elections.traceall.in/Nagaland-lok-sabha-parlimentary-election-results/1977 | title=Loksabha Election Results in 1977, Nagaland | publisher=elections.traceall.in | accessdate=2017-07-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://164.100.47.194/Loksabha/Members/womenar.aspx?lsno=6&tab=9 | title=Women Member Sixth Lok Sabha | publisher=Loksabha | accessdate=2017-07-11}}</ref><ref name=hindu>{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/in-nagaland-politics-still-remains-elusive-to-women/article4490225.ece | title=In Nagaland, politics still remains elusive to women | publisher=thehindu.com | accessdate=2017-07-11}}</ref>

Shaiza played an important role in taking the Naga peace accord ahead. She brokered the meeting between her uncle [[Angami Zapu Phizo]] and the then [[Indian Prime Minister]] [[Morarji Desai]].<ref name=ind/><ref name=hindu/> Shaiza was a staunch advocate of prohibition and founded the Naga Mothers' Association that worked towards tackling alcohol abuse in Nagaland, and was instrumental in passing the [[Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act, 1989]] on 29 March 1990.<ref name=ind1/><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/hashtag/rano-m-shaiza/ | title=Absence of female legislators and parliamentarians in the state with the sole exception of Rano M Shaiza | publisher=dhakatribune.com | accessdate=2017-07-11}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Shaiza married Lungshim Shaiza, with whom she had two daughters and three sons. Lungshim Shaiza was assassinated by the [[National Socialist Council of Nagaland]] on 27 January 1990.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eBPRzDO-9KEC&pg=PA99 | title=Lungshim Shaiza was assassinated | publisher=Mittal Publications | author=U A Shimray | year=2007 | pages=252 | isbn=978-8183241816}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.nagalandpost.com/ChannelNews/State/StateNews.aspx?news=TkVXUzEwMDA3ODExNQ%3D%3D Rano M. Shaiza]

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[[Category:Women members of the Lok Sabha]]
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Nagaland]]
[[Category:6th Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian women]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian people]]

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