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on replacing education. She resigned from
"all men are the Assembly in protest against
created equal" the partition of India.
with "all human Malati Choudhury was
beings are a prominent
created equal" in the Universal social reformer,
Declaration of Human Rights at freedom fighter,
the United Nations. On August 15, and Gandhian
1947, she presented the national leader. She
flag to the Constituent Assembly actively participated in the
on behalf of the women of India. Bhoodan Movement led by
Kamla Chaudhry was Vinoba Bhave. She founded the
a writer and Utkal Congress Socialist Party
political activist (1938), Naba Bharat Yuvak
who participated Sangha (1934), and Baji Rout
in the Civil Chhatravas (1948).
D is ob ed ie nc e Purnima Banerjee was a
Movement in 1930, and was fearless activist
imprisoned by the British. She and a key
served as a member of the member of the
Provincial Government after the Congress in
adoption of the Constitution. She Allahabad. In
wrote on the themes of gender the Assembly, she contributed
discrimination, exploitation of to discussions on the Preamble,
peasants and poor condition of preventive detention, and the
widows. qualifications of Rajya Sabha
Leela Roy was a politician members.
and reformer, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur was
and a close instrumental in
associate of establishing AIIMS
Netaji Subhas and the Lady
Chandra Bose. Irwin College
She extensively worked for girls' as India’s first
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