Sheila Kaul

Sheila Kaul
Governor of Himachal Pradesh
In office
17 November 1995  22 April 1996
Preceded byMahabir Prasad
Succeeded byMahabir Prasad
Union Minister of Urban Development
In office
21 June 1991  3 May 1995
Prime MinisterP. V. Narasimha Rao
Preceded byDaulat Ram Saran
Union Minister of Urban Affairs and Employment
In office
3 May 1995  10 September 1995
Prime MinisterP. V. Narasimha Rao
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Education, Culture and Social Welfare
In office
8 August 1981  31 December 1984
Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi
Personal details
Born(1915-02-07)7 February 1915
Lucknow, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India
Died13 June 2015(2015-06-13) (aged 100)
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political partyIndian National Congress
SpouseKailas Nath Kaul
Professionpolitician, social worker, social reformer, educationist

Sheila Kaul (7 February 1915 – 13 June 2015) was a social democratic leader of the Indian National Congress, a politician, cabinet minister and governor, and the oldest living former member of parliament in India at the time of her death. She was also an educator, social worker, and social reformer in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and an independence activist in British India. She was Jawaharlal Nehru's sister-in-law and Indira Gandhi's maternal aunt.