Annie Mascarene
Topic: Framing the Indian Constitution · NCERT: Class 12, Ch 4 "Framing the Constitution"
Meaning
Annie Mascarene was a lawyer and freedom fighter from Travancore, a princely state in present-day Kerala. She was one of the fifteen women members of the Constituent Assembly. She joined it as a representative of the princely states of Travancore and Cochin. Later she won a seat in the first Lok Sabha. She was one of Kerala's first women members of Parliament.
Example
In the Constituent Assembly, Annie Mascarene spoke for a democratic and fair constitution. In the 1951-52 general election she won from Thiruvananthapuram and entered the first Lok Sabha.
Don't confuse with
- Dakshayani Velayudhan: she was also a woman member from Kerala, but she was elected from Madras. She was the Assembly's only Dalit woman member. She demanded a "moral safeguard" and the immediate end of social disabilities for Harijans.
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