14 Facts About Margaret Cousins

Margaret Elizabeth Cousins was an Irish-Indian educationist, suffragist and Theosophist, who established All India Women's Conference in 1927.

Margaret Cousins was the wife of poet and literary critic James Cousins, with whom she moved to India in 1915.

Margaret Cousins is credited with preserving the tune of the Indian National Anthem Jana Gana Mana based on the notes provided by Tagore himself in February 1919, during Rabindranath Tagore's visit to the Madanapalle College.

Margaret Cousins was a member of the Flag Presentation Committee which presented the National Flag to the Constituent Assembly on 14 August 1947.

Margaret Cousins studied music at the Royal University of Ireland in Dublin, graduating in 1902, and became a teacher.

In 1906, after attending a National Conference of Women meeting in Manchester, Margaret Cousins joined the Irish branch of the NCW.

Margaret Cousins was a vegetarian and was a speaker for the Vegetarian Society in 1907.

Margaret Cousins co-founded the Irish Women's Franchise League with Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington in 1908, serving as its first treasurer.

Margaret Cousins was arrested and sentenced to a month in Holloway Prison.

In 1913, she and her husband moved to Liverpool, where James Margaret Cousins worked in a vegetarian food factory.

In 1917 Margaret Cousins co-founded the Women's Indian Association with Annie Besant and Dorothy Jinarajadasa.

Margaret Cousins was a member of the Flag Presentation Committee, which was a committee of 74 Indian women led by Hansa Mehta at the Constituent Assembly.

Margaret Cousins received financial support from the Madras government, and later Jawaharlal Nehru, in recognition of her services to India.

Margaret Cousins's manuscripts are dispersed in various collections across the world.