How can you say that women also contributed to the framing of the constitution of India
Answers
Answer:
Isn’t it a curious thing that in the initial years of Indian politics, the idea of women as political equals of men was the norm and not a deviance? Even when stuffy ideas threatened to seep in and undermine equal suffrage, Indian polity stood united on the fundamental ideas about equal rights.
Almost a century after Indian provincial legislatures voted for equal suffrage—the women’s movement in India had been fighting for suffrage since 1917—we’re still debating the number of women in our state legislatures and Parliament, who belongs and who does not.
In December 1946, a newly formed constituent assembly came together to debate and draft a constitution for a soon-to-be independent India. The debate took place over two years, 11 months and 17 days. It was an extraordinary project—an experiment that would determine the ability of a country to govern itself. Among the 299 members of the assembly, 15 were women who had either been voted or chosen to represent their provinces, who left their mark on the making of the republic. The assembly was a platform from which they could assert their equality and craft a politically balanced republic.