1. Bhicoo Batlivala, known as Mrs Guy Mansell or Bee Mansell, was an Indian-born British barrister and campaigner for India's independence.
12 Facts About Bhicoo Batlivala
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Bhicoo Batlivala first appeared in the 1930s as a popular socialite and photographs of her appeared in several magazines including Tatler and The Sketch.
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Bhicoo Batlivala was born in Bombay, to Sorabji Batlivala, a successful Parsi wool mill owner who later managed Empress Mills in Nagpur.
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Bhicoo Batlivala had a sister, Siloo, and a brother, Homi.
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Bhicoo Batlivala passed her exams in constitutional law and history in 1930 with a first class mark.
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Bhicoo Batlivala departed Southampton for New York on 19 December 1939 on the Holland America Line's SS Volendam.
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Professor of American literature Clive Bush noted that Bhicoo Batlivala was writing about wartime India's civil and political rights as early as 1941.
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On 24 February 1943, the press reported that day that Bhicoo Batlivala headed a group of Indian women and led them to the Central Lobby of the House of Commons to request the release of Mahatma Gandhi from prison.
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Bhicoo Batlivala first appeared in the 1930s as a popular socialite.
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Bhicoo Batlivala appeared several times in The Sketch including; dressed as Pola Negri from Passion in 1933, at the Derby Ball in the summer of 1934, and attending a polo match with the Princess of Berar in the summer of 1937.
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Bhicoo Batlivala married Guy Robinson Mansell of Upton, Buckinghamshire, in 1939.
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Bhicoo Batlivala died on 10 October 1983 in a nursing home at Burgess Hill, West Sussex.