Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Topic: Framing the Indian Constitution · NCERT: Class 12, Ch 4 "Framing the Constitution"
Meaning
Vijayalakshmi Pandit was Jawaharlal Nehru's sister and one of the fifteen women members of the Constituent Assembly. In 1937 she became a minister in the Congress government of the United Provinces. This made her one of the first Indian women to hold a cabinet post. After Independence she became one of India's leading diplomats.
Example
In 1953, Vijayalakshmi Pandit was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. She was the first woman to hold that post.
Don't confuse with
- Sarojini Naidu: another famous woman in the Assembly. She was a poet and Congress leader, and later became Governor of the United Provinces. She was not a diplomat at the UN.
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
- Sucheta Kripalani