Rameshwari Nehru, the last woman MLA from Lahore in United Punjab. She won the Lenin Peace Prize for rescuing 30,000 abducted women in eight years between 1948 and 1956 after partition.

Rameshwari Nehru was born on December 10, 1886 in Lahore. He worked as the editor of Istari Darpan, a Hindi magazine, in Lahore from 1909–1924. She was one of the founders of the All India Women's Conference. She belonged to the Nehru family and became a woman MLA of Lahore in 1946.

After partition Rameshwari Nehru refused to leave Lahore until all women refugees in the camps were evacuated.According to the official estimate in 1947, 50,000 Muslim women in India and 33,000 non-Muslim women in Pakistan were abducted.

She helped rescue 30,000 abducted women in eight years between 1948 and 1956 after the Partition. In all, 20,728 Muslim women were rescued ,a figure that overshadows the number of non-Muslims rescued. A total of 9,032 non-Muslim women were saved.She was a great daughter of Lahore.