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The Constituent Assembly of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

was elected to write the Constitution of India

Constitution of India

The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India. It lays down the framework defining fundamental political principles, establishes the structure, procedures, powers, and duties of government institutions, and sets out fundamental rights, directive principles, and the duties of citizens...

, and following independence served as the nation's first Parliament

Parliament

A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French , the action of parler : a parlement is a discussion. The term came to mean a meeting at which...

Nature of the Assembly

The Constituent Assembly, consisting of indirectly elected representatives, was set up for the purpose of drafting a constitution for India (including what are now the separate countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh). In the event, it remained in being for almost three years, acting as the first parliament of India after independence in 1947.

The Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi on 9 December, 1946. The last session of the Assembly was held in November, 1949. Over the course of this period (two years, eleven months and seventeen days), the Assembly held eleven sessions, sitting on a total of 165 days.

Background and election

The Constituent Assembly was set up while India was still under British rule

British Raj

British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...

, following negotiations between Indian leaders and members of the 1946 Cabinet Mission to India

1946 Cabinet Mission to India

The British Cabinet Mission of 1946 to India aimed to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership, providing India with independence under Dominion status in the Commonwealth of Nations...

from the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. The Assembly members were elected to it indirectly by the members of the individual provincial legislative assemblies, and initially included representatives for those provinces which came to form part of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

, some of which are now within Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

. The Constituent Assembly had 217 representatives, including 15 women.

The Interim Government of India

Interim Government of India

The interim government of India, formed on 2 September 1946 from the newly elected Constituent Assembly of India, had the task of assisting the transition of India from British rule to independence...

was formed on 2 September 1946 from the newly-elected Constituent Assembly.

The Congress

Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...

held a large majority in the Assembly, with 69 per cent of all of the seats, while the Muslim League held almost all of the seats reserved in the Assembly for Muslims. There were also some members from smaller parties, such as the Scheduled Caste Federation, the Communist Party of India

Communist Party of India

The Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...

, and the Unionist Party.

In June 1947, the delegations from the provinces of Sindh

Sindh

Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...

, East Bengal

East Bengal

East Bengal was the name used during two periods in the 20th century for a territory that roughly corresponded to the modern state of Bangladesh. Both instances involved a violent partition of Bengal....

, Baluchistan

Baluchistan (Chief Commissioners Province)

The Chief Commissioner's Province of Baluchistan was a province of British India located in the northern parts of the modern Balochistan province.- History :...

, West Punjab, and the North West Frontier Province withdrew, in order to form the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan

Constituent Assembly of Pakistan

The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan was formed to write Pakistan's constitution, and serve as its first parliament. It first convened on 11 August 1947, before the end of British rule on August 15, 1947. Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the first President of this Assembly until his death on...

, meeting in Karachi

Karachi

Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

.

On August 15, 1947, the Dominion of India

Dominion of India

The Dominion of India, also known as the Union of India or the Indian Union , was a predecessor to modern-day India and an independent state that existed between 15 August 1947 and 26 January 1950...

and Dominion of Pakistan

Dominion of Pakistan

The Dominion of Pakistan was an independent federal Commonwealth realm in South Asia that was established in 1947 on the partition of British India into two sovereign dominions . The Dominion of Pakistan, which included modern-day Pakistan and Bangladesh, was intended to be a homeland for the...

became independent nations, and the members of the Constituent Assembly who had not withdrawn to Karachi became India's Parliament

Parliament of India

The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body in India. Founded in 1919, the Parliament alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all political bodies in India. The Parliament of India comprises the President and the two Houses, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha...

. Only 28 members of the Muslim League finally joined the Indian Assembly. Later, 93 members were nominated from the princely states. The Congress thus secured a majority of 82%.

Constitution and elections

See Also: Constitution of India

Constitution of India

The Assembly formally approved the draft Constitution on November 26, 1949. On January 26, 1950, the Constitution took effect, a day now commemorated in India as Republic Day

Republic Day

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. At this point, the Constituent Assembly became the Provisional Parliament of India, which continued in existence until after the first elections under the new Constitution took place in 1952.

Organization

Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha was the first president (temporary chairman) of the Constituent Assembly when it met on December 9, 1946. Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Rajendra Prasad

Dr. Rajendra Prasad was an Indian politician and educator. He was one of the architects of the Indian Republic, having drafted its first constitution and serving as the first president of independent India...

then became the President of the Constituent Assembly, and would later become the first President of India

President of India

The President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. President of India is also the formal head of all the three branches of Indian Democracy - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary...

. The Vice President of the Constituent Assembly was Professor Harendra Coomar Mookerjee

Harendra Coomar Mookerjee

Harendra Coomar Mookerjee was the Governor of West Bengal from November 1, 1951 through August 8, 1956.Mookerjee was the first Indian to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree...

, a former Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University and a prominent Christian from Bengal, who also served as the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly

Constituent assembly

A constituent assembly is a body composed for the purpose of drafting or adopting a constitution...

's Minorities Committee; he was appointed Governor of West Bengal after India became a republic.

Committees under the Constituent Assembly

Committee on the Rules of procedure - Rajendra Prasad
Rajendra Prasad
Dr. Rajendra Prasad was an Indian politician and educator. He was one of the architects of the Indian Republic, having drafted its first constitution and serving as the first president of independent India...
Drafting Committee B.R. Ambedkar
Steering Committee Rajendra Prasad
Rajendra Prasad
Dr. Rajendra Prasad was an Indian politician and educator. He was one of the architects of the Indian Republic, having drafted its first constitution and serving as the first president of independent India...
Finance and Staff Committee Rajendra Prasad
Rajendra Prasad
Dr. Rajendra Prasad was an Indian politician and educator. He was one of the architects of the Indian Republic, having drafted its first constitution and serving as the first president of independent India...
Credential Committee Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer
Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer
Diwan Bahadur Sir Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer was an Indian lawyer and member of the Constituent Assembly of India, which was responsible for framing the Constitution of India. He was Advocate General of the Composite Madras State....
House Committee B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya
Order of Business Committee K. M. Munshi
K. M. Munshi
Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi was an Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer and educationist from Gujarat state. A lawyer by profession, he later turned to literature and politics. He was a well known name in Gujarati literature...
Ad hoc Committee on the National Flag Rajendra Prasad
Rajendra Prasad
Dr. Rajendra Prasad was an Indian politician and educator. He was one of the architects of the Indian Republic, having drafted its first constitution and serving as the first president of independent India...
Committee on the Functions of the Constituent Assembly G. V. Mavalankar
States Committee Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...
Advisory Committee on Fundamental Rights, Minorities
Tribal and Excluded Areas Vallabhbhai Patel

Minorities Sub-Committee Harendra Coomar Mookerjee
Harendra Coomar Mookerjee
Harendra Coomar Mookerjee was the Governor of West Bengal from November 1, 1951 through August 8, 1956.Mookerjee was the first Indian to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree...
Fundamental Rights Sub-Committee J. B. Kripalani
North-East Frontier Tribal Areas and Assam. Excluded & Partially Excluded Areas Sub-Committee Gopinath Bardoloi
Excluded and Partially Excluded Areas (Other than those in Assam) Sub-Committee A.V. Thakkar
Thakkar Bapa
Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar, popularly known as Thakkar Bapa was an Indian social worker who worked for upliftment of tribal people in Gujarat state in India. He became a member of the Servants of India Society founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1914. In 1922, he founded the Bhil Seva Mandal...
Union Powers Committee Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...
Union Constitution Committee Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...

Indian National Congress

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was an Indian barrister and statesman, one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress and one of the founding fathers of India...

, Deputy Prime Minister cum Home Minister
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Minister for Law, Chairman of Drafting committee
Maulana Azad, Minister for Education,
Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Chairman of the Assembly
C. Rajagopalachari
C. Rajagopalachari
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, Governor General
Sarat Chandra Bose
Sarat Chandra Bose
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Sri Krishna Sinha
Sri Krishna Sinha
Sri Krishna Sinha , known as Bihar Kesari, was the first Chief Minister of the Indian state of Bihar . Along with the nationalists Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Sinha is regarded among the Architects of Modern Bihar...

, Chief Minister, Bihar
Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra
Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra
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Anugrah Narayan Sinha
Anugrah Narayan Sinha
Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha , known as Bihar Vibhuti, was an Indian statesman who was the first Deputy Chief Minister cum Finance Minister of the Indian state of Bihar...

, Deputy Chief Minister cum Finance Minister, Bihar
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai , was an Indian independence activist and a socialist, sometimes described as an Islamic socialist...

,
Asaf Ali
Asaf Ali
Asaf Ali was an Indian independence fighter and noted Indian lawyer. He was the first ambassador from India to the United States. He also worked as the governor of Orissa....

,
Sri Sheik Galib Sahib,
Syama Prasad Mookerjee
Syama Prasad Mookerjee
Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee was a minister in Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet as a Minister for Industry and Supply....

, President, Hindu Mahasabha
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Dame Rajkumari Amrit Kaur DStJ was the health minister in the Indian Cabinet for ten years after India's independence from the British Raj in 1947. She was an eminent Gandhian, a freedom fighter, and a social activist....

, Minister for Health
Hansa Mehta, President, All India Women's Conference
Prof. N.G. Ranga
Deep Narayan Singh
Deep Narayan Singh
Deep Narayan Singh was an Indian politician, participant in the Indian independence movement, and a former Chief Minister of Bihar.He was born in Rajput family of Bihar. He was a Member of the Constituent Assembly of India which was elected to write the Constitution of India, and served as part of...
P. Subbarayan
P. Subbarayan
Paramasiva Subbarayan was an Indian politician, freedom fighter and diplomat and was the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency, India's ambassador to Indonesia and Union Minister of Transport and Communications in Jawaharlal Nehru's government. He is the father of General P. P...
Kailashnath Katju
N. G Ayyangar
T. T. Krishnamachari
T. T. Krishnamachari
- References :...
Rameshwar Prasad Sinha
Rameshwar Prasad Sinha
Rameshwar Prasad Sinha was an Indian statesman and a participant in the Indian independence movement. He was a Member of the Constituent Assembly of India which was elected to write the Constitution of India, and served as its first Parliament as an independent nation. He was also a Member of...
Durgabai Deshmukh
Durgabai Deshmukh
Durgābāi, Lady Deshmukh was an Indian freedom fighter, lawyer, social worker and politician. She was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and the Planning Commission of India....
K. M. Munshi
K. M. Munshi
Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi was an Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer and educationist from Gujarat state. A lawyer by profession, he later turned to literature and politics. He was a well known name in Gujarati literature...
Krishana Ballabh Sahay
Frank Anthony
Frank Anthony
Frank Anthony was a prominent leader of the Anglo-Indian community in India, and was until his death their nominated representative in the Parliament of India....

, Anglo Indian representative
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , OM, FBA was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He was the first Vice President of India and subsequently the second President of India ....
Dr. John Mathai
John Mathai
John Matthai was an economist who served as India's first Railway Minister and subsequently as India's Finance Minister, taking office shortly after the presentation of India's first Budget, in 1948. Mathai graduated in economics from Madras Christian College. He served as a part-time professor in...
Pratap Singh Kairon
Pratap Singh Kairon
Pratap Singh Kairon was the Chief Minister of the Punjab province , and is widely acknowledged to be the architect of post-Independence Punjab Province. Moreover, he was an Indian independence movement leader...
Prof. Shibbanlal Saxena
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
Sir Ramasamy Chetty Kandasamy Shanmukham Chetty KCIE was an Indian lawyer, economist and politician who served as independent India's first finance minister from 1947 to 1949...
Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer
Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer
Diwan Bahadur Sir Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer was an Indian lawyer and member of the Constituent Assembly of India, which was responsible for framing the Constitution of India. He was Advocate General of the Composite Madras State....
Jagjivan Ram
Jagjivan Ram
Babu Jagjivan Ram , known popularly as Babuji, was a freedom fighter and a social reformer hailing from the scheduled castes of Bihar in India. He was from the Chamar caste and was a leader for his community...

, President, All India Depressed Classes League
Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant
Govind Ballabh Pant
Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant was a statesman of India, an Indian independence activist, and one of the foremost political leaders from Uttarakhand and of the movement to establish Hindi as the official language of India.-Early life:Govind Ballabh Pant was born on September 10, 1887 in...

, Premier, United Provinces
Minoo Masani
Renuka Ray
Purushottam Das Tandon
Purushottam Das Tandon
Purushottam Das Tandon पुरुषोत्तम दास टंडन , was a freedom fighter from Uttar Pradesh in India, of Punjabi Khatri descent. He is widely remembered for his efforts in achieving the Official Language of India status for Hindi. He was customarily given the title Rajarshi...
Mahavir Tyagi
Mahavir Tyagi
Mahavir Tyagi was an Indian independence fighter and famous parliamentarian from the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.Early life=Tyagi was educated in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. He joined the British Indian Army and was posted in Persia but resigned after the Amritsar Massacre, or Jallianwala Bagh...
Thakur Das Bhargava
Bhagwan Das
Bhagwan Das
Bhagwan Das was an Indian theosophist and public figure. For a time he served in the Central Legislative Assembly of British India. He became allied with the Hindustani Culture Society and was active in opposing rioting as a form of protest...
Feroze Gandhi
Feroze Gandhi
Feroze Jehangir Gandhi was an Indian politician and journalist, and publisher of the The National Herald and The Navjivan newspapers from Lucknow....
B. Shiva Rao
Jairamdas Daulatram
Jairamdas Daulatram
ÈJairamdas Daulatram اردو: جے رام داس دولت رام हिंदी जैरामदास दौलतराम was an Indian political leader in the Indian independence movement...
Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
Pattom A. Thanu Pillai was a participant in the Indian independence movement who later served as the Chief Minister of Kerala from 22 February 1960 to 25 September 1962....
R. Sankar
R. Sankar
R. Sankar was an Indian politician and the third Chief Minister of Kerala. He was born on April 30, 1909 in Kuzhikkalidavaka village in Kottarakkara.-Education and public life:...
P. S. Nataraja Pillai
K. A. Mohamed
P. T. Chacko, Pullolil
P. T. Chacko, Pullolil
P. T. Chacko was a prominent politician of Travancore and later Kerala. He was the Home Minister of Kerala during 1960-64.He was born on April 9, 1915 as the son of Thomas Pullolil and Annamma Thomas at Chirakkadavu, in Kottayam District. A lawyer by profession, he served as a member of Travancore...
Panampilly Govinda Menon
Panampilly Govinda Menon
Panampilly Govinda Menon was an Indian politician, freedom fighter, and lawyer. He was born at Chalakudy and started his lawyer practice there as a junior to Adv. M. C. Joseph . He was the first treasurer of Kerala Yukthivadi Sangham. He moved his practice to Ernakulam afterwards...
Annie Mascarene
Bhograju Pattabhi Sitaramayya
Kamraj
Kamraj
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Ammu Swaminathan
Ammu Swaminathan
Ammu Swaminathan was an Indian social worker and a prominent political activist during the Indian independence movement. After independence, she served as a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and later, as a member of the Rajya Sabha from Madras State...
Purnima Banerjee
Purnima Banerjee
Purnima Banerjee was an Indian freedom fighter, and a member of the Constituent Assembly of India. She was also the sister of Aruna Asaf Ali.-Note:http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/debates/members.htm#UNITED...
Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Ramnath Goenka
Ramnath Goenka
Ramnath Goenka was a newspaper baron of India. He launched The Indian Express and created the Indian Express Group with various English and regional language publications...

, Editor of the Indian Express
Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu
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Jaipal Singh
Jaipal Singh
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Munda, President, Adibasi Mahasabha
Jagjivan Ram
Jagjivan Ram
Babu Jagjivan Ram , known popularly as Babuji, was a freedom fighter and a social reformer hailing from the scheduled castes of Bihar in India. He was from the Chamar caste and was a leader for his community...
Dakshayani Velayudan
Revd. Jerome D'Souza
Jerome D'Souza
Father Jerome D'Souza, SJ was an Indian Jesuit priest, educationist, writer and member of the Indian Constituent assembly .-Early years and formation:...
Revd. J. J. M. Nichols-Roy
Gopinath Bordoloi
Gopinath Bordoloi
Gopinath Bordoloi was the first Chief Minister of the Indian state of Assam, and also a leading Indian independence activist. He was a follower of the Gandhian principle of non violence as a political tool...
Dharanidhar Basumatari
Malati Choudhury
Malati Choudhury
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Homi Mody
Leela Roy
Leela Roy
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Biswanath Das
Biswanath Das
Biswanath Das was an Indian politician. He was the Prime Minister of Orissa Province of British India 1937–39, the Governor of Uttar Pradesh 1962–67 and later the Chief Minister of Orissa 1971–72.-Political career:...

, Premier of Orissa
Acharya Kriplani
Sucheta Kriplani
Sucheta Kriplani
Sucheta Kriplani , born Sucheta Mazumdar, was an Indian freedom fighter and politician in Uttar Pradesh, India. She became the first woman to be elected Chief Minister of any Indian state.-Early life:...
Harendra Coomar Mookerjee
Harendra Coomar Mookerjee
Harendra Coomar Mookerjee was the Governor of West Bengal from November 1, 1951 through August 8, 1956.Mookerjee was the first Indian to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree...
Gopi Krishna Vijayvargiya
Pandit Raghunath Vinayak Dhulekar
D.H. Chandrasekharaiya
Nibaran Chandra Laskar
Ari Bahadur Gururng, Gorkha Community (Darjeeling)
Ch. PURU .Choudhry.
Harsh K. Soni.

Muslim League

Begum Aizaz Rasul
Begum Aizaz Rasul
Begum Qudsia Aizaz Rasul was an Indian politician and the only Muslim woman to be a member of the Constituent Assembly of India.-Family:...

, Vice President (later President) Muslim League (India)
Manuj Bansal
Nawab Mohammad Ismail Khan
Kazi Syed Karimuddin
Kazi Syed Karimuddin
Kazi Syed Karimuddin MA, LLB was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India that framed the Indian Constitution....
Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman
Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman
Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman was a Pakistani politician and an important Muslim figure during British India, as an eminent National level leader of the All India Muslim League hailed from the United Provinces . The most strong supporter of the Pakistan movement and Muhammad Ali Jinnah...

, President, Muslim League (India)
Naziruddin Ahmad
Z. H. Lari
Mohammad Saadullah, Premier of Assam
Aziz Ahmed Khan
Aziz Ahmed Khan
Aziz Ahmed Khan was Pakistan's High commissioner to India from June 2003 to September 2006. His tenure as High Commissioner to India was extended by Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shaukat Aziz by a year in August 2005....
Maulana Daud Ghazhnavi
Tajamul Hussain
Hussain Imam
Hussain Imam
Hussain Imam was a prominent politician of Bihar. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India in 1946....
Mahboob Ali Baig Sahib Bahadur
Pocker Sahib Bahadur
Choudhry puru

Others

Scheduled Caste Federation

Dr. Ambedkar

Akalis

Sardar Hukam Singh
Sardar Hukam Singh
Sardar Hukam Singh was an Indian politician and the speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1962 to 1967. He was also governor of Rajasthan from 1967 to 1972.-Early life:...

Communist

Somnath Lahiri

Madras

O. V. Alagesan

Ozhalur Viswanatha Mudaliar Alagesan was an Indian politician and freedom fighter from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He served as a member of the Indian Parliament from 1951 to 1957, 1962 to 1967 and from 1971 to 1979....

,
Mrs. Ammu Swaminathan

Ammu Swaminathan

Ammu Swaminathan was an Indian social worker and a prominent political activist during the Indian independence movement. After independence, she served as a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and later, as a member of the Rajya Sabha from Madras State...

,
M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar,
Moturi Satyanarayana

Moturi Satyanarayana

Satyanarayana Moturi was an Indian freedom fighter alongside Mohandas Gandhi until 1947, a member of the Constituent Assembly of India which drafted the Indian Constitution, and a member of the Rajya Sabha until 1966...

,
Mrs. Dakshayani Velayudhan,
Mrs. G. Durgabai,
Kala Venkatarao,
N. Gopalaswamy Ayyangar,
D. Govinda Das,
Revd. Jerome D'Souza

Jerome D'Souza

Father Jerome D'Souza, SJ was an Indian Jesuit priest, educationist, writer and member of the Indian Constituent assembly .-Early years and formation:...

,
P. Kakkan

P. Kakkan

P. Kakkan was a Dalit leader, freedom fighter and Indian politician who served as a member of the Constituent Assembly of India, Member of Parliament, President of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee and in various ministerial posts in Congress Governments in the erstwhile Madras state between...

,
K. Kamaraj

K. Kamaraj

Kumarasami Kamaraj better known as K. Kamaraj was an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu widely acknowledged as the "Kingmaker" in Indian politics during the 1960s. He was the chief minister of Tamil Nadu during 1954-1963 and a Member of Parliament during 1952-1954 and 1969-1975...

,
V. C. Kesava Rao,
T. T. Krishnamachari

T. T. Krishnamachari

- References :...

,
Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer

Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer

Diwan Bahadur Sir Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer was an Indian lawyer and member of the Constituent Assembly of India, which was responsible for framing the Constitution of India. He was Advocate General of the Composite Madras State....

L. Krishnaswami Bharathi,
P. Kunhiraman,
Mosalikanti Thirumala Rao

Mosalikanti Thirumala Rao

Mosalikanti Thirumala Rao was Indian Freedom activist and Parliament member.-Life Sketch:He was born to Shri Bayanna Pantulu in Pithapuram, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India....

,
V. I. Muniswamy Pillay,
M. A. Muthiah Chettiyar,
V. Nadimuthu Pillai,
S. Nagappa,
P. L. Narasimha Raju,
B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya,
C. Perumalswamy Reddy,
T. Prakasam,
S. H. Prater,
Raja Swetachalapati Ramakrishna Renga Roa of Bobbili,
R. K. Shanmukham Chetti,
T. A. Ramalingam Chettiyyar,
Ramnath Goenka

Ramnath Goenka

Ramnath Goenka was a newspaper baron of India. He launched The Indian Express and created the Indian Express Group with various English and regional language publications...

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O. P. Ramaswamy Reddiyar

O. P. Ramaswamy Reddiyar

Omandur Ramasamy Reddiar was an Indian freedom-fighter and politician of the Indian National Congress. He served as the Premier of Madras Presidency from March 23, 1947 to April 6, 1949.-Early life:...

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N. G. Ranga,
Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy,
Sri Sheik Galib Sahib,
K. Santhanam

K. Santhanam

Shri Kasturiranga Santhanam , also known as Kumitithadai Santhanam, was an Indian politician. He was a conservative Iyengar from Tamil Nadu and acquired the appellation 'Pandit' for his erudition....

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B. Shiva Rao,
Kallur Subba Rao

Kallur Subba Rao

Padma Sri Kallur Subba Rao was an Indian freedom activist and Politician.He was born in Kallur near Hindupur Tq, Anantapur District. His Father’s name is Sri Surappa and his mother's name is Puttamma. Kallur Subba Rao was born on 25 May 1897, and he was the first person who started Congress...

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U. Srinivasa Mallayya,
P. Subbarayan

P. Subbarayan

Paramasiva Subbarayan was an Indian politician, freedom fighter and diplomat and was the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency, India's ambassador to Indonesia and Union Minister of Transport and Communications in Jawaharlal Nehru's government. He is the father of General P. P...

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C. Subramaniam,
V Subramaniam,,
M. C. Veerabahu,
P. M. Velayudapani,
A. K. Menon,
T. J. M. Wilson,
Mohamed Ismail Sahib,
K. T. M. Ahmed Ibrahim,
Mahboob Ali Baig Sahib Bahadur,
B. Pocker Sahib Bahadur

Bombay

Balchandra Maheshwar Gupte,
Mrs. Hansa Mehta,
Hari Vinayak Pataskar,
B. R. Ambedkar

B. R. Ambedkar

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar , popularly also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, political leader, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, a revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of independent India. He was also the Chairman...

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Joseph Alban D'Souza,
Kanayalal Nanabhai Desai,
Keshavrao Marutirao Jedhe

Keshavrao Jedhe

Keshavrao Marutrao Jedhe was a leading Freedom Fighter and Congress Leader from Pune at the time of Indian Independence and Chairman of Samyukta Maharashtra Movement in 1956...

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Khandubhai Kasanji Desai,
Bal Gangadhar Kher

B. G. Kher

Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher was the first chief minister of Bombay State which consisted of present day Maharastra and Gujrat States of India. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India in 1954...

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M.R. Masani,
K.M. Munshi,
Narahar Vishnu Gadgil

Narahar Vishnu Gadgil

Narhar Vishnu Gadgil was an Indian freedom fighter and politician from Maharashtra, India. He was also a writer...

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S. Nijalingappa

S. Nijalingappa

Siddavanahalli Nijalingappa was a senior Congress politician and the Chief Minister of Karnataka between 1956 and 1958 and once again between 1962 and 1968...

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S. K. Patil,
Ramchandra Manohar Nalavade,
R. R. Diwakar,
Shankarrao Deo,
G. V. Mavalankar,
Vallabhbhai Patel,
Abdul Kadar Mohammad Shaikh,
A. A. Khan

West Bengal

Monomohan Dass,
Arun Chandra Guha,
Lakshmi Kanta Maitra,
Mihir Lal Chattopadhyay,
Satis Chandra Samanta,
Suresh Chandra Majumdar,
Upendranath Barman,
Prabhudayal Himatsingka,
Basanta Kumar Das,
Mrs. Renuka Ray,
H. C. Mookherjee,
Surendra Mohan Ghose,
Syama Prasad Mookerjee

Syama Prasad Mookerjee

Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee was a minister in Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet as a Minister for Industry and Supply....

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Ari Bahadur Gurung,
R. E. Platel,
K. C. Neogy,
Raghib Ahsan,
Somnath Lahiri,
Jasimuddin Ahmad,
Naziruddin Ahmad,
Abdul Hamid

Abdul Hamid

Abdul Hamid is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Ḥamid. The name means "servant of the All-laudable", al-Ḥamīd being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.The letter a of the al- is...

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Abdul Halim Ghuznavi

United Provinces

Ajit Prasad Jain,
Algu Rai Shastri,
Balkrishna Sharma,
Banshi Dhar Misra,
Bhagwan Din,
Damodar Swarup Seth,
Dayal Das Bhagat,
Dharam Prakash,
A. Dharam Dass,
R. V. Dhulekar,
Feroz Gandhi,
Gopal Narain,
Krishna Chandra Sharma,
Govind Ballabh Pant

Govind Ballabh Pant

Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant was a statesman of India, an Indian independence activist, and one of the foremost political leaders from Uttarakhand and of the movement to establish Hindi as the official language of India.-Early life:Govind Ballabh Pant was born on September 10, 1887 in...

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Govind Malaviya,
Har Govind Pant

Har Govind Pant

Har Govind Vallabh Pant was a freedom fighter and founder of the "Kumoun Parishad" political group in 1915. He was elected deputy speaker of the United Provinces legislature on 4 January 1951....

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Harihar Nath Shastri,
Hriday Nath Kunzru,
Jaspat Roy Kapoor,
Jagannath Baksh Singh,
Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...

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Jogendra Singh

Jogendra Singh

Sir Jogendra Singh was a member of Viceroy's Executive Council in India. He served as Chairman of the Department of Health, Education and Lands. He was a figure in the Sikh community and one of several delegates chosen to represent the Sikh community before the Cripps' mission of 1942...

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Jugal Kishore,
Jwala Prasad Srivastava,
B. V. Keskar,
Mrs. Kamala Chaudhri,
Kamalapati Tiwari,
J. B. Kripalani,
Mahavir Tyagi

Mahavir Tyagi

Mahavir Tyagi was an Indian independence fighter and famous parliamentarian from the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.Early life=Tyagi was educated in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. He joined the British Indian Army and was posted in Persia but resigned after the Amritsar Massacre, or Jallianwala Bagh...

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Khurshed Lal,
Masurya Din,
Mohan Lal Saksena,
Padampat Singhania,
Phool Singh,
Paragi Lal,
Mrs. Purnima Banerjee

Purnima Banerjee

Purnima Banerjee was an Indian freedom fighter, and a member of the Constituent Assembly of India. She was also the sister of Aruna Asaf Ali.-Note:http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/debates/members.htm#UNITED...

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Prurshottam Das Tandon,
Hira Vallabha Tripathi,
Ram Chandra Gupta,
Shibban Lal Saxena,
Satish Chandra

Satish Chandra

Satish Chandra is an Indian historian, whose main area of specialisation is medieval Indian History.-Early life:He is the son of Sir Sita Ram, a zamindar/educator/barrister/politician from Meerut.-Academic:...

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John Matthai,
Mrs. Sucheta Kripalani,
Sunder Lall,
Venkatesh Narayan Tivary,
Mohanlal Gautam,
Vishwambhar Dayal Tripathi,
Vishnu Sharan Dublish,
Begum Aizaz Rasul

Begum Aizaz Rasul

Begum Qudsia Aizaz Rasul was an Indian politician and the only Muslim woman to be a member of the Constituent Assembly of India.-Family:...

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Hyder Hussain,
Hasrat Mohani

Hasrat Mohani

Maulana Hasrat Mohani was a romantic poet of Urdu language, journalist, politician, parliamentarian and a fearless freedom fighter of Indian Sub-continent . His real name was Syed Fazl ul Hasan. He was born in 1875 at Mohan in Unnao district of U.P...

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Abul Kalam Azad,
Muhammad Ismail Khan,
Rafi Ahmad Kidwai,
Mohd. Hifzur Rahman

East Punjab

Bakshi Tek Chand,
Jairamdas Daulatram

Jairamdas Daulatram

ÈJairamdas Daulatram اردو: جے رام داس دولت رام हिंदी जैरामदास दौलतराम was an Indian political leader in the Indian independence movement...

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Thakurdas Bhargava,
Bikramlal Sondhi,
Yashwant Rai,
Ranbir Singh

Ranbir Singh

General Shriman Rajrajeshwar Maharajadhiraj Sri Sir Ranbir Singhji, Indar Mahindar Bahadur, Sipar-i-Sultanat, Mushir-i-Khas-i-Kaiser-i-Hind GCSI, CIE, Kaiser-i-Hind was the son of Maharaja Gulab Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir and head of the Jamwal Rajput clan.The trans-Himalayan territories...

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Achint Ram,
Nand Lal,
Sardar Baldev Singh

Baldev Singh

Baldev Singh was an Indian Sikh political leader, he was an Indian independence movement leader and the first Defence Minister of India. Moreover, he represented the Punjabi Sikh community in the processes of negotiations that resulted in the independence of India, as well as the Partition of India...

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Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir,
Sardar Hukam Singh

Sardar Hukam Singh

Sardar Hukam Singh was an Indian politician and the speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1962 to 1967. He was also governor of Rajasthan from 1967 to 1972.-Early life:...

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Sardar Bhopinder Singh Mann,
Sardar Rattan Singh Lohgarh

Bihar

Amiyo Kumar Ghosh,
Anugrah Narayan Sinha

Anugrah Narayan Sinha

Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha , known as Bihar Vibhuti, was an Indian statesman who was the first Deputy Chief Minister cum Finance Minister of the Indian state of Bihar...

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Banarsi Prasad Jhunjhunwala,
Bhagwat Prasad,
Boniface Lakra,
Brajeshwar Prasad,
Chandika Ram,
K. T. Shah,
Devendra Nath Samanta,
Dip Narain Sinha,
Guptanath Singh,
Jadubans Sahay,
Jagat Narain Lal,
Jagjivan Ram

Jagjivan Ram

Babu Jagjivan Ram , known popularly as Babuji, was a freedom fighter and a social reformer hailing from the scheduled castes of Bihar in India. He was from the Chamar caste and was a leader for his community...

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Jaipal Singh

Jaipal Singh

Jaipal Singh Munda was a Munda tribal man, who captained the Indian field hockey team to clinch gold in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. He is well known for his sportsmanship and political skills....

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Kameshwara Singh of Darbhanga,
Kamaleshwari Prasad Yadav,
Mahesh Prasad Sinha,
Krishna Ballabh Sahay,
Raghunandan Prasad,
Rajendra Prasad

Rajendra Prasad

,
Rameshwar Prasad Sinha

Rameshwar Prasad Sinha

Rameshwar Prasad Sinha was an Indian statesman and a participant in the Indian independence movement. He was a Member of the Constituent Assembly of India which was elected to write the Constitution of India, and served as its first Parliament as an independent nation. He was also a Member of...

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Ramnarayan Singh,
Sachchidananda Sinha,
Sarangdhar Sinha,
Satyanarayan Sinha,
Binodanand Jha,
P. K. Sen,
Sri Krishna Sinha

Sri Krishna Sinha

Sri Krishna Sinha , known as Bihar Kesari, was the first Chief Minister of the Indian state of Bihar . Along with the nationalists Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Sinha is regarded among the Architects of Modern Bihar...

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Sri Narayan Mahtha,
Syamanandan Sahaya,
Hussain Imam

Hussain Imam

Hussain Imam was a prominent politician of Bihar. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India in 1946....

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Syed Jafar Imam,
Latifur Rahman

Latifur Rahman

Latifur Rahman was the Chief Justice and the Chief Adviser of Bangladesh. He was born in Jessore on 1 March 1936. In 1979 he became the Justice as temporary basis in the High Court Division in Bangladesh. In 1981 he became the permanent Justice in the same court division...

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Mohammad Tahir,
Tajamul Hussain,
Choudhry Abid Hussain.

Central Provinces and Berar

Raghu Vira

Raghu Vira was a linguist. He was a Hindu nationalist and served as Jana Sangh's President.-Biography:Dr. Raghu Vira was born in in Rawalpindi on 30th December 1902. After doing MA from Punjab University, he did Ph.D. from London and D. Litt. from Leiden...

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Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

Dame Rajkumari Amrit Kaur DStJ was the health minister in the Indian Cabinet for ten years after India's independence from the British Raj in 1947. She was an eminent Gandhian, a freedom fighter, and a social activist....

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B.A. Mandloi

Bhagwantrao Mandloi

Bhagwantrao Mandloi , an Indian National Congress politician was a former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. He was born in Khandwa....

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Brijlal Nandlal Biyani,
Thakur Cheedilal,
Seth Govind Das

Seth Govind Das

Seth Govind Das was a freedom fighter and a distinguished parliamentarian. He belonged to the famous Maheshwari merchant family of Raja Gokuldas of Jabalpur....

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Hari Singh Gour

Hari Singh Gour

Hari Singh Gour , also known as Sir Hari Singh Gour and Dr. Hari Singh Gour, was a distinguished lawyer, jurist, educationist, social reformer, poet, and novelist. He was one of the greatest visionaries of education of this century on the Indian subcontinent and even on a global scale...

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Hari Vishnu Kamath,
Hemchandra Jagobaji Khandekar,
Ghanshyam Singh Gupta,
Lakshman Shrawan Bhatkar,
Panjabrao Shamrao Deshmukh

Panjabrao Deshmukh

Panjabrao Shamrao Deshmukh famously known as Bhausaheb Deshmukh was a social activist and a farmer's leader in India. He was the Minister of Agriculture in the first cabinet of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in 1952....

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Ravi Shankar Shukla,
R. K. Sidhva,
Shankar Trimbak Dharmadhikari

Dada Dharmadhikari

Shankar Trimbak Dharmadhikari , better known throughout the world as Acharya Dada Dharmadhikari was an Indian freedom fighter, and a leader of social reform movements in India...

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Frank Anthony

Frank Anthony

Frank Anthony was a prominent leader of the Anglo-Indian community in India, and was until his death their nominated representative in the Parliament of India....

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Kazi Syed Karimuddin

Kazi Syed Karimuddin

Kazi Syed Karimuddin MA, LLB was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India that framed the Indian Constitution....

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Ganpatrao Dani

Assam

Nibaran Chandra Laskar,
Dharanidhar Basu-Matari,
Gopinath Bardoloi,
J. J. M. Nichols-Roy,
Kuladhar Chaliha,
Rohini Kumar Chaudhury,
Muhammad Saadulla,
Abdur Rouf

Orissa

B. Das,
Biswanath Das

Biswanath Das

Biswanath Das was an Indian politician. He was the Prime Minister of Orissa Province of British India 1937–39, the Governor of Uttar Pradesh 1962–67 and later the Chief Minister of Orissa 1971–72.-Political career:...

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Krishna Chandra Gajapati Narayana Deo of Parlakimedi,
Harekrushna Mahatab

Harekrushna Mahatab

Harekrushna Mahatab was a leader of the Indian National Congress, a notable figure in the Indian independence movement and the Chief Minister of Orissa from 1946 to 1950 and again from 1956 to 1961. He was popularly known by the sobriquet Utkal Keshari.-Early life:Harekrushna Mahtab was born at...

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Lakshminarayan Sahu,
Lokanath Misra,
Nandkishore Das,
Rajkrishna Bose,
Santanu Kumar Das
yudhishir mishra

Mysore

K.C. Reddy,
T. Siddalingaiya,
H. R. Guruv Reddy,
S. V. Krishnamurthy Rao,
K. Hanumanthaiya,
H. Siddaveerappa,
T. Channiah

Jammu and Kashmir

Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah,
Motiram Baigra,
Mirza Mohmmad Afzal Beg,
Maulana Mohammad Sayeed Masoodi

Madhya Bharat

Vinayak Sitaram Sarwate,
Brijraj Narain,
Gopikrishna Vijayavargiya,
Ram Sahai,
Kusum Kant Jain,
Radhavallabh Vijayavargiya,
Sitaram S. Jajoo

Saurashtra

Balwant Rai Gopalji Mehta,
Jaisukhlal Hathi,
Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar,
Chimanlal Chakubhai Shah,
Samaldas Laxmidas Gandhi

Rajasthan

V. T. Krishnamachari

Rao Bahadur Sir Vangal Thiruvenkatachari Krishnamachari KCSI, KCIE was an Indian civil servant and administrator...

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Hiralal Shastri,
Sardar Singhjhi of Khetri,
Jaswant Singhji,
Raj Bhadur,
Manikya Lal Varma,
Gokul Lal Asava,
Ramchandra Upadhyaya,
Balwant Sinha Mehta,
Dalel Singh

Dalel Singh

Lieutenant Colonel Apji Dalel Singh was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India.He hails from Thikana "Palaitha", a premier principality of the erstwhile Kotah State in Rajasthan....

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Jainarain Vyas

Bombay States

Vinayakrao Balshankar Vaidya,
B. N. Munavalli,
Gokulbhai Daulatram Bhatt,
Jivraj Narayan Mehta

Jivraj Narayan Mehta

Dr Jivraj Narayan Mehta was the first Chief Minister of Gujarat. He was born on 29 August 1887 to Narayan and Jamakben Mehta in Amreli in Bombay Presidency. He was son-in-law of Manubhai Mehta, then Dewan of Baroda state.-Early life and education:...

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Gopaldas A. Desai,
Paranlal Thakurlal Munshi,
B. H. Khardekar,
Ratnappa Bharamappa Kumbhar

Orissa States

Lal Mohan Pati,
N. Madhava Rau,
Raj Kunwar,
Sarangadhar Das,
Yudhishthir Misra

Vindhya Pradesh

Avdesh Pratap Singh,
Shambu Nath Shukla,
Ram Sahai Tiwari,
Mannulalji Dwidedi

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See also

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