a new constituent assembly having 389 representatives (later 299) including 12 women (later 15) were formed and assigned with the duty to draft the constitution for a soon-to-be independent India.

The Tribune, the largest selling English daily in North India, publishes news and views without any bias or prejudice of any kind. Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language and ...

Sri Amblavana thought that Nehru, as first Indian head of a really Indian Government ... president of the Constituent Assembly. On his back lawn four plantain trees served as pillars for a ...

indeed learn about many of them, thanks to this extraordinary fact-filled treatise. The Fifteen: The Lives and Times of the Women in India’s Constituent Assembly ...

he said the future of India's Constitution and institutions rests on the shoulders of the youth. Modi said there were 15 women members in the Constituent Assembly with one of them being ...

India celebrates Constitution Day or Samvidhan Divas on November 26. It was on this day in 1949 that the Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution of India that came into effect from January ...

Constituent Assembly debates show that both ‘India’ and ‘Bharat’ were retained in the Constitution to align contrasting thoughts voiced by the makers in 1948. The to-and-fro in the ...

This excerpt from Angellica Aribam and Akash Satyawali’s book, ‘The Fifteen: The Lives and Times of Women in India’s Constituent Assembly’ has been published with permission from Hachette ...