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what was vijayalakshmi pandits contribution to the indian constitution, write in points, URGENT!!!!!​

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Answered by Nehaa10523
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In 1934 Pandit's long career in politics officially began with her election to the Allahabad Municipal Board. In 1936 she was elected to the Assembly of the United Provinces, and in 1937 became minister of local self-government and public health—the first Indian woman ever to become a cabinet minister. Like all Congress party officeholders, she resigned in 1939 to protest against the British government's declaration that India was a participant in World War II. Along with other Congress leaders, she was imprisoned after the Congress' "Quit India" Resolution of August 1942.

Forced to reorient her life after her husband's death, Pandit traveled in the United States from late 1944 to early 1946, mainly on a lecture tour. Returning to India in January 1946, she resumed her portfolio as minister of local self-government and public health in the United Provinces. In the fall of 1946 she undertook her first official diplomatic mission as leader of the Indian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. She also led India's delegations to the General Assembly in 1947, 1948, 1952, 1953, and 1963.

Pandit was elected to India's Constituent Assembly in 1946. Shortly after India's independence in 1947, she joined the foreign service and was appointed India's first ambassador to the Soviet Union. In early 1949 she became ambassador to the United States.

In November 1951 she returned to India to contest successfully for a seat in the Lok Sabha (India's parliament) in the first general elections. In September 1953 she was given the honor of being the first woman and the first Asian to be elected president of the U.N. General Assembly.

For nearly seven years, beginning in December 1954, Pandit served as Indian high commissioner (ambassador) to the United Kingdom, including a tense period in British-Indian relations at the time of the Suez and Hungarian crisis' in 1956. From March 1963 until August 1963 she served as governor of the state of Maharashtra.

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Answered by Abhinandhan
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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit fought many battles and broke many glass ceilings for the women of India and around the world.

She was a shining example of what women could achieve on the world stage if they set their minds to it. When she was president of the General Assembly, a reporter once inquired about the color of her sari, the traditional attire of Indian women. She shot back, "Did you ask my predecessor about the color of his tie?"

Being a woman in politics is difficult even today, but she began her career when it was virtually non-existent. While she acknowledged the privilege she enjoyed by belonging to the Nehru family, she also knew that there were plenty of obstacles that she had to overcome as a woman.

While people constantly tried to remind her that she was a woman, and an outsider, she didn’t let it affect her. When asked if she was conscious of being a woman in a position of power she says “I’ve never been conscious about being different from anybody else because I’ve never been allowed to think that.” She went on to quip how people in the parliament were eager to bring needles and thread in case she wanted them. “This was not the kind of help I wanted,” she says “I wanted help from their minds.”

This attitude towards women in politics was seen across the world. During her first meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill he said to Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit “Because I have accepted you, doesn’t mean that my ideas of women have changed. I don’t want you putting ideas into women’s heads.”

While she was “accepted” by the prime minister, she and other women of the time were not to assume that women now had an equal opportunity. She was an exception, an exception permitted to exist by the patriarchal bosses. She wasn’t there because she had seen an opportunity and seized it but rather because she was “allowed” to by the men running the government.

The political world is still very much a man’s world. Even when there is a woman in it, she needs to claw her way through it, making a position for herself, facing more backlash than is necessary.

So for Vijay Lakshmi Pandit to hold so many different positions, before and after independence, is an achievement for women through time. Not only was she the first woman to hold a political position in pre-independent India, but she was also the first woman to be the President of the UN General Assembly.

She was the face of the newly independent India, representing the country in three different countries. She was a staunch believer in the freedom of India and openly condemned colonialism and imperialism.

Note: She was also the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post in pre-independent India. In 1937, she was elected to the provincial legislature of the United Provinces and was designated minister of local self-government and public health. She held the latter post until 1939 and again from 1946 to 1947. In 1946, she was elected to the Constituent Assembly from the United Provinces. Of the 299 members of the Constituent Assembly, only 15 were women.

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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Interview: Indian Diploma

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