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In the 1940s, Rustomjee was heard regularly on Bombay radio, speaking on education and literacy topics. She also wrote articles on educational topics. In 1949, she served on a committee about social service work in Bombay. In the early 1960s, she was involved with the
Victoria Memorial School for
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in Bombay. Later in life, she was president of the Indian
Federation of University Women's Associations, and served as vice president of the International Federation of University Women from 1956 to 1959. In 1957 and 1958 she toured in the United States with other leaders of the Federation. In a
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Rustomjee was principal of the
Secondary Training College in Bombay for four years, the first woman to hold that post. Rustomjee gave a lecture in 1931 on the "Abolition of Illiteracy", advocating for voluntary literacy work as a condition of college matriculation. She was a member of the Adult
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Rustomjee lived with her aunt, J. M. Cursetjee. Rustomjee died in 1976. The Amy Rustomjee Hall at the Women's Graduate Union in Mumbai and the Amy Rustomjee International Scholarship at the University of Mumbai are named in her memory.
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1958 debate on women and municipal administration, organized by the State Women's
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family, the daughter of B.H.J. Rustomjee and Hilla J. M. Cursetjee. Her father was a merchant and a school principal. She held a diploma in education from the
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