Calling on University of Delhi’s Seniormost Alumnus MM Sabharwal by Prof. Sydney Rebeiro along with Vice-Chancellor Professor Yogesh K Tyagi on 14.08.2016.
Prof Rebeiro Calls on DU Vice Chancellor Prof Yogesh K Tyagi
Prof Sydney R Rebeiro, Adviser/ Dean Alumni Affairs, University of Delhi called on Vice Chancellor Professor Yogesh K Tyagi on 19.05.2016.
Independent India’s First Postmistress
MARY ISAACS REBEIRO
(1904 – 1983)
Celebrating The pioneering First Postmistress of India and her distinguished Family
Mary Isaacs Rebeiro
22 October 1904 – 2 November 1983
The first lady to head a Post Office (Kashmere Gate, Maiden’s Hotel and Mori Gate, from 1940) in an all – male Postal environment when less than 1% of India’s Organised Sector workforce was female and 16% Indians were literate
Affectionately called dak khane ki memsaab by the thousands she served, especially among illiterates and the weaker sections
In times when Post Offices were the main, often only, such centres she served Delhi’s prestigious St. Stephen’s Hospital, The Indian Express, Queen Mary’s, Maiden’s/ Swiss Hotels, Chief Commissioner-Magistrates/ The District Courts, Carlton’s (commissioned 1922 by Viceroy Daniel Isaacs who also founded Delhi University 1922) Jagat Narain Seth (owner of Ritz, Novelty and Jagat Cinemas) ace photographer Kulwant Roy and eminent writer Nirad C Chaudhuri, diplomats and foreign tourists in elite Civil Lines – Kashmere Gate – Mori Gate
Daughter of distinguished Anglo – Indian parents Sarah Rose and Revd JS Isaacs (Jt Commissioner Lahore/ Delhi’s Revenues Officer 1920s) niece of Principal Eric Isaacs MA, sister of Grace, Stephen Isaacs MA IAS, John Isaacs MSc, George Isaacs (DE Telegraphs) and Theophilus Isaacs (Electrical Engineer, Sheffield UK) and cousin of Brigadier Sam Isaacs, beloved wife of John Rebeiro (Delhi 1909/ Delhi Improvement Trust/ DDA) cherished mother of Jeanette (Church High, now DPS/ Presentation Convent / Trinity School of Music London 1940s)
Oldest worshiping family of the oldest Church (1836) in Delhi, St. James since 1910.
The Isaacs’, The Dountings and The Stimpsons (UK) The Josephs (Delhi – Bombay) and son Prof Sydney Rebeiro MA (Delhi) / Cambridge UK / Kentucky USA Res: A 681 Sarita Vihar, New Delhi 110076 R : 26953434 O : 27666665 sydneyrebeiro@yahoo.com and sydneyrebeiro@gmail.com
Marking the Family’s Centenary in the Capital City Delhi 1909 – 2009
Proposal for DU Global Centre for the Study of CapitalCity Delhi as Historic and PostModern Globopolis
AdAL 2012
Proposal for
DU Global Centre for
the Study of Capital City Delhi
To include spatial, politicoeconomic, psychosocial and cultural design – and – demographic solution – providing analyses of Capital City / ies internationally, including crucial innercity regeneration issues taking the current and recent academic plans of Kennedy School of Governance, Loughborough University, The European Union, World Cities Study Group, NYU Harvard – MIT Centre, UNCHS, India ’s IHSP and India’s Institute for Urban Studies etc several significant academic steps forward
and
To be funded by The Government of NCT of Delhi to mark Delhi 100 and to landmark DU 90 as The CapitalCity ’s first and pioneering University, still moving magnificently forward.
