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Mar 7, 2020 · Out of 389 members of the Constituent Assembly, only 15 were women. Know more about the women who had a hand in creating the Constitution of India.
While we all remember Dr. B R Ambedkar as the Father of the Constitution and other pioneering male members who helped draft the Indian Constitution, the contribution of the fifteen female members of the Constituent Assembly is easily forgotten.
Mar 6, 2024 · Among the 299-member Constituent Assembly, there were 15 women who advocated passionately for a kind of India that would bear the imprint of both genders. They argued ardently over a range of topics from reservations to the Uniform Civil Code.
Nov 25, 2021 · Of the 389 members of the Indian Constituent Assembly, 15 were women. Get to know more about them here! Ammu Swaminathan. Ammukutty, as she was fondly called was fearless in thought and action, evident in her lifetime as social worker and politician. Through her work at WIA, she addressed the economic issues and problems of women workers.
The Constituent Assembly of India had 389 representatives, including fifteen women, and 299 representatives after August 1947. The Interim Government of India was formed on 2 September 1946 from the newly elected Constituent Assembly.
Nov 28, 2022 · She was a social worker and politician who along with Annie Besant, Margaret Cousins, Malathi Patwardhan, Mrs. Dadabhoy, and Mrs. Ambujammal, formed the Women’s India Association in 1917 in Madras. One of the first associations to demand adult franchise and constitutional rights for women.
This Volume is a tribute to the women Members of the Constituent Assembly some of whom — Begum Aizaz Rasul, Smt. Ammu Swaminathan and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur — later became the Members of Rajya Sabha.
Mar 4, 2023 · Role of Women in the constituent assembly. Hansa Mehta and Amrit kaur: Hansa Mehta and Amrit Kaur were on the Advisory Committee, with both being members of the Fundamental Rights Sub Committee and Kaur serving also on the Minorities Sub-Committee.
Eleven of 15 women members of Constituent Assembly (special arrangement/meera velayudhan) Wearing overcoats and shawls, they sat in neat rows and applauded when Sachchidananda Sinha — one...
Mar 4, 2023 · This has been the defining feature of the contributions of the women members of the Constituent Assembly — their erasure. Hence, the importance of the scholarly and riveting work by Achyut Chetan, titled The Founding Mothers of the Republic, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.
