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| name = Tara Ali Baig<br />
| image = TaraAliBaig1936.png<br />
| alt = A young South Asian woman with fair skin, dark hair in marcelled waves, wearing a light-colored soft garment<br />
| caption = Tara Ali Baig, from a 1936 issue of ''The Indian Listener''<br />
| birth_date = 8 August 1916<br />
| birth_place = [[Mussoorie]], [[Uttarakhand]], India<br />
| death_date = {{death year and age|1989|1916}}<br />
| occupation = Writer, social welfare reformer<br />
| spouse =[[Mirza Rashid Ali Baig]]<br />
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'''Tara Ali Baig''' (8 August 1916 – 1989) was a [[social reformer]], writer, and first Asian woman President of the [[International Union for Child Welfare]] in Geneva.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
She was born in [[Mussoorie]] on 8 August 1916 and went to school in Darjeeling, Switzerland and Dhaka. She married the diplomat Mirza Rashid Ali Baig and was famous artist [[Anjolie Ela Menon]]’s aunt. In 1937 she was appointed to the first Planning Committee as the convener of a group to examine the social and economic disabilities of women. Shortly after Independence her husband was posted abroad, and during their tour she established the Women’s International Club in Indonesia and later a similar club in Iran. When her husband became Chief of Protocol in Delhi she built up the [[Indian Council for Child Welfare]] of which she later became president, and she also helped Indira Gandhi (q.v.) to Indianise the style of entertainment for state banquets at Rashtrapati Bhavan. In 1977, she was elected president of the [[International Union for Child Welfare]] in Geneva, the first Asian and the first woman to hold the post. She was a member of the [[Tibetan Homes Foundation]] and was president of the SOS Children’s Villages of India for 22 years (1967 to 1989).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.soschildrensvillages.in/news/latest-news/tara-ali-baig-memorial-lecture |title="SOS India pays homage to Tara Ali Baig on her memorial day" |access-date=9 November 2014 |archive-date=23 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423175820/http://www.soschildrensvillages.in/news/latest-news/tara-ali-baig-memorial-lecture |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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From 1968 onwards, she was vice president of the SOS Kinderdorf International, Austria. She was the architect of the Child Welfare Policies in the Five Year Plans and a member of the National Children’s Board from 1975. Her books include the autobiographical ''Portraits of an era'';<ref>S. Nihal Singh "Superb cameos: Book Review: Tara Ali Baig's ''Portraits of an Era''". ''India Today'', 28 February 1989 [https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-and-the-arts/books/story/19890228-book-review-tara-ali-baigs-portraits-of-an-era-815827-1989-02-27] Accessed 9 November 2014</ref> the biography ''[[Sarojini Naidu]];'' ''The Moon in Rahu: an account of the Bhowal sannyasi case''; ''Women of India''; ''India’s Woman Power;'' and many children’s books such as ''Indrani''; ''The Enchanted Jungle;'' and ''The Forbidden Sea''.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n50017949 worldCat author listing]</ref> Her talks over All India Radio and her historical and cultural programmes on television were very popular.<br />
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She received an honorary degree from the [[Tehran School of Social Work]] in 1965; a gold medal and special award from the [[International Union for Child Welfare]] in 1984, the National Award for Child Welfare in 1984; and an honorary degree of Doctor of Law from [[Alberta University]], Canada in 1988.<br />
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