Ammu Swaminathan
Topic: Framing the Indian Constitution · NCERT: Class 12, Ch 4 "Framing the Constitution"
Meaning
Ammu Swaminathan was a social worker from Kerala. She was a member of the Constituent Assembly from Madras. She was one of its fifteen women members. She spoke up for women's equality and against caste discrimination. Women like her made sure that equal rights for women became part of the Constitution.
Example
In the closing debates of November 1949, Ammu Swaminathan said that outsiders claimed India did not give women equal rights. She said the Constitution now proved that Indians themselves had given women equal rights with men. Her daughter was Lakshmi Sahgal, who commanded the women's regiment of Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian National Army.
Don't confuse with
- Hansa Mehta: she was a woman member from Bombay. She is known for saying that women wanted "social justice, economic justice, and political justice", not reserved seats or separate electorates.
Related concepts
- Rajendra Prasad
- B.R. Ambedkar
- Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly
- K.M. Munshi
- Alladi Krishnaswamy Aiyar
- B.N. Rau
- S.N. Mukherjee
- Women in the Constituent Assembly
- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
- Vijayalakshmi Pandit