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Hansa Jivraj Mehta (left) represented India at the meeting of the sub-commission on the status of women at Hunter College in New York in 1946. Photo: UN Photo<br />
Hansa Jivraj Mehta (left) represented India at the meeting of the sub-commission on the status of women at Hunter College in New York in 1946. Photo: UN Photo
The women who helped draft our constitution
9 min read . 13 Mar 2016
Priyadarshini Ravichandran
Excerpts from an ongoing online project on the 15 women who were part of the constituent assembly that shaped our country's laws
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mint-india-wireConstitutionsuffrageWomenWomen Architects Of The Indian RepublicHansa Jivraj MehtaDakshayani Velayudhan
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.