# Ela Bhatt (@ela-bhatt)

Ela Ramesh Bhatt (7 September 1933 – 2 November 2022) was an Indian cooperative organiser, activist and Gandhian, who founded the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) in 1972, and served as its general secretary from 1972 to 1996. She was the chancellor of the Gujarat Vidyapith from 7 March 2015 to 19 October 2022.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Ela Bhatt's public record._

## Topics

- [Evidence and Limits](/@ela-bhatt/evidence-and-limits.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Documented Work](/@ela-bhatt/documented-work.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Field and Context](/@ela-bhatt/field-and-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://id.loc.gov/search/?q=Ela%20Bhatt&q=cs%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fid.loc.gov%2Fauthorities%2Fnames
- blog: https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=Ela%20Bhatt
- blog: https://www.si.edu/search?edan_q=Ela%20Bhatt

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "ela-bhatt", "question": "…"}`.