The document provides biographical information on 15 members of the Indian Constituent Assembly that framed the Constitution of India. It details their backgrounds, professions and roles. Some key members included: Vallabhbhai Patel, who played a role in integrating princely states and was deputy prime minister. B.R. Ambedkar who chaired the drafting committee and was later law minister. And Jawaharlal Nehru, who was prime minister of the interim government and later became the first prime minister of independent India. The assembly consisted of elected representatives from across India who helped shape the country's constitution.

1. MEMBERS OF THE
INDIAN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

2. INTRODUCTION
 IN 1934 M N ROY FIRST PROPOSED THE IDEA OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY. HOWEVER THE
ACTUAL CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY WAS FORMED IN 1946 FOR FRAMING THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
BY THE CABINET MISSION PLAN. THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY CONSISTED OF THE ELECTED
REPRESENTATIVES OF VARIOUS PROVINCES WHO WERE EMINENT PERSONALITIES IN THEIR OWN
FIELDS.
 ON THE BASIS OF THE FRAMEWORK PROVIDED BY THE CABINET MISSION, A CONSTITUENT
ASSEMBLY WAS CONSTITUTED ON 9TH DECEMBER, 1946. THE CONSTITUTION MAKING BODY WAS
ELECTED BY THE PROVINCIAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY CONSISTING OF 389 MEMBERS WHO
INCLUDED 93 FROM PRINCELY STATES AND 296 FROM BRITISH INDIA.
 THE SEATS TO THE BRITISH INDIAN PROVINCES AND PRINCELY STATES WERE ALLOTTED IN
PROPORTION OF THEIR RESPECTIVE POPULATION AND WERE TO BE DIVIDED AMONG MUSLIMS,
SIKHS AND REST OF THE COMMUNITIES. ALL SECTIONS OF THE INDIAN SOCIETY GOT
REPRESENTATION IN THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY IN SPITE OF LIMITED SUFFRAGE.

3. VALLABHBHAI JHAVERBHAI PATEL
 (1875-1950) BORN: GUJARAT. A MINISTER OF HOME, INFORMATION
AND BROADCASTING IN THE INTERIM GOVERNMENT. A LAWYER
AND LEADER OF BARDOLI PEASANT SATYAGRAHA. PLAYED A
DECISIVE ROLE IN THE INTEGRATION OF THE INDIAN PRINCELY
STATES. LATER HE WAS DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER.
 HE WAS OFTEN CALLED SARDAR, MEANING "CHIEF" IN HINDI, URDU,
AND PERSIA.HE ACTED AS HOME MINISTER DURING THE POLITICAL
INTEGRATION OF INDIA AND THE INDO-PAKISTANI WAR OF 1947.
 PATEL WAS A SENIOR LEADER IN THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF
INDIA AND WAS RESPONSIBLE IN LARGE MEASURE FOR SHAPING
INDIA'S CONSTITUTION. THE TITLE 'SARDAR' WAS GIVEN TO HIM BY
MAHATMA GANDHI.

4. T.T KRISHNAMACHARI
 (1899-1974) BORN: TAMIL NADU. A MEMBER OF DRAFTING COMMITTEE.
ENTREPRENEUR AND CONGRESS LEADER. LATER HE WAS FINANCE MINISTER
IN THE UNION CABINET.
 TIRUVELLORE THATTAI KRISHNAMACHARI WAS AN INDIAN POLITICIAN WHO
SERVED AS FINANCE MINISTER FROM 1956 TO 1958 AND FROM 1964 TO 1966.
HE WAS ALSO A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE FIRST GOVERNING BODY OF THE
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF APPLIED ECONOMIC RESEARCH (NCAER) IN NEW
DELHI, INDIA'S FIRST INDEPENDENT ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
ESTABLISHED IN 1956.
 KRISHNAMACHARI WAS ELECTED TO THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY FROM
MADRAS ON A CONGRESS PARTY TICKET. AS A MEMBER OF THE DRAFTING
COMMITTEE, HE DEDICATED 4014 HOURS IN NUMEROUS ASSIGNMENTS OF
THE COMMITTEE. IN THE ASSEMBLY, HE INTERVENED ON THE ISSUE OF
FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

5. ABUL KALAM AZAD
 (1888-1958) BORN: SAUDI ARABIA. HE WAS A EDUCATIONIST, AUTHOR AND
THEOLOGIAN; SCHOLAR OF ARABIC. A CONGRESS LEADER, ACTIVE IN THE NATIONAL
MOVEMENT. HE OPPOSED MUSLIM SEPARATIST POLITICS. LATER HE WAS THE
EDUCATIONAL MINISTER IN THE FIRST UNION CABINET
 AZAD WAS THE SON OF AN INDIAN MUSLIM SCHOLAR LIVING IN MECCA AND HIS
ARABIC WIFE. THE FAMILY MOVED BACK TO INDIA (CALCUTTA [NOW KOLKATA])
WHEN HE WAS YOUNG, AND HE RECEIVED A TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC EDUCATION AT
HOME FROM HIS FATHER AND OTHER ISLAMIC SCHOLARS RATHER THAN AT
A MADRASAH (ISLAMIC SCHOOL).

6. RAJENDRA PRASAD
 (1884-1963) BORN: BIHAR. HE WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONSTITUENT
ASSEMBLY. A LAWYER, KNOWN FOR HIS ROLE IN THE CHAMPARAN
SATYAGRAHA. THREE TIMES HE BECAME THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS. LATER
HE WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF INDIA.
 A SUPPORTER OF MAHATMA GANDHI, PRASAD WAS IMPRISONED BY
BRITISH AUTHORITIES DURING THE SALT SATYAGRAHA OF 1931 AND
THE QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT OF 1942. AFTER THE CONSTITUENT
ASSEMBLY ELECTION IN 1946, PRASAD SERVED AS MINISTER OF FOOD
AND AGRICULTURE IN THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT UPON INDEPENDENCE
IN 1947.
 PRASAD WAS ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
OF INDIA, WHICH PREPARED THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA AND SERVED AS
ITS PROVISIONAL PARLIAMENT.

7. JAIPAL SINGH
 (1903-1970) BORN: JHARKHAND . A SPORTSMAN AND EDUCATIONIST.
CAPTAIN OF THE FIRST NATIONAL HOCKEY TEAM. FOUNDER
PRESIDENT OF ADIVASI MAHA SABHA. LATER HE WAS THE FOUNDER
OF JHARKHAND PARTY
 JAIPAL SINGH WAS SELECTED TO WORK IN THE INDIAN CIVIL
SERVICE, FROM WHICH HE LATER RESIGNED. IN 1934, HE BECAME A
TEACHER AT THE PRINCE OF WALES COLLEGE AT ACHIMOTA, GOLD
COAST, GHANA.
 IN 1937, HE RETURNED TO INDIA AS THE PRINCIPAL OF
THE RAJKUMAR COLLEGE, RAIPUR. IN 1938, HE JOINED
THE BIKANER PRINCELY STATE AS FOREIGN SECRETARY

8. G. DURGABAI DESHMUKH
 (1909-1981) BORN: ANDHRA PRADESH. ADVOCATE AND PUBLIC ACTIVIST
FOR WOMEN’S EMANCIPATION. FOUNDER OF ANDHRA MAHILA SABHA.
CONGRESS LEADER. LATER: FOUNDER CHAIRPERSON OF CENTRAL
SOCIAL WELFARE BOARD
 SHE WAS INVOLVED IN THE INDIAN FREEDOM MOVEMENT FROM A VERY YOUNG
AGE: AT 12, SHE QUIT SCHOOL TO PROTEST THE IMPOSITION OF ENGLISH AS THE
MEDIUM OF EDUCATION. SHE LATER STARTED THE BALIKA HINDI PAATHSHALA IN
RAJAMUNDRY TO PROMOTE HINDI EDUCATION FOR GIRLS. AT THE AGE OF 14, SHE
VOLUNTEERED AT A CONFERENCE HELD BY THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS IN
KAKINADA.
 SHE WAS A PUBLIC ACTIVIST FOR WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION, SHE FOUNDED THE
ANDHRA MAHILA SABHA (ANDHRA WOMEN'S CONFERENCE) IN 1937.

9. KANHAIYALAL MANIKLAL MUNSHI
 (1887-1971) BORN:GUJARAT. ADVOCATE, HISTORIAN AND LINGUIST. CONGRESS
LEADER AND GANDHIAN. LATER: MINISTER IN THE UNION CABINET. FOUNDER
OF THE SWATANTRA PARTY.
 KANHAIYALAL MANEKLAL MUNSHI, POPULARLY KNOWN BY HIS PEN
NAME GHANSHYAM VYAS, WAS AN INDIAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT
ACTIVIST, SOCIALIST, POLITICIAN, WRITER AND EDUCATIONIST FROM
GUJARAT STATE. A LAWYER BY PROFESSION, HE LATER TURNED TO
AUTHOR AND POLITICIAN. HE IS A WELL-KNOWN NAME IN GUJARATI
LITERATURE. HE FOUNDED BHARATIYA VIDYA BHAVAN, AN EDUCATIONAL
TRUST, IN 1938.
 MUNSHI WROTE HIS WORKS IN THREE LANGUAGES NAMELY GUJARATI,
ENGLISH AND HINDI. BEFORE INDEPENDENCE OF INDIA, MUNSHI WAS
PART OF INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS AND AFTER INDEPENDENCE

10. H.C MOOKHERJEE
 (1887-1956) BORN: BENGAL. A VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE CONSTITUENT
ASSEMBLY. A REPUTED AUTHOR AND EDUCATIONIST AND A CONGRESS LEADER.
MEMBER OF ALL INDIA CHRISTIAN COUNCIL AND BENGAL LEGISLATIVE
ASSEMBLY. LATER: GOVERNOR OF WEST BENGAL.
 DR. MOOKERJEE WAS APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF WEST BENGAL FROM 1
NOVEMBER 1951 THROUGH 7 AUGUST 1956. WHILE WORKING AS BENGAL
GOVERNOR, HE SERVED AS THE PRESIDENT OF "DESH BANDHU MEMORIAL
SOCIETY" FROM 1953. HE DIED IN OFFICE ON 7 AUGUST 1956 IN CALCUTTA.
 HE WAS THE ONLY CANDIDATE TO BE UNANIMOUSLY NOMINATED FOR
VICE-PRESIDENCY, WITH A RESOLUTION MOVED BY PATTABHI
SITARAMAYYA, A MEMBER OF INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS AND
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA; CONSEQUENTLY, HE EXPRESSED HIS
GRATITUDE IN THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA THAT MET IN THE
CONSTITUTION HALL, NEW DELHI

11. BALDEV SINGH
 ( 1901-1961) BORN: HARYANA. A SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR AND
LEADER OF THE PANTHIC AKALI PARTY IN THE PUNJAB ASSEMBLY. A
NOMINEE OF THE CONGRESS IN THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY. LATER:
DEFENCE MINISTER IN THE UNION CABINET
 HE REPRESENTED THE PUNJAB SINGH COMMUNITY IN THE
PROCESS OF NEGOTIATIONS THAT RESULTED IN THE
INDEPENDENCE OF INDIA,AS WELL AS THE PARTION OF INDIA IN
1947.AFTER INDEPENDENCE .BALDEV SINGH WAS CHOOSEN TO
BECOME THE FIRST MINISTER OF DEFENCE.

12. SHYAMA PRASAD MUKHERJEE
 (1901-1953) BORN: WEST BENGAL. A MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND SUPPLY IN THE
INTERIM GOVERNMENT. HE WAS A EDUCATIONIST AND LAWYER. ACTIVE IN HINDU
MAHASABHA. LATER: HE WAS THE FOUNDER PRESIDENT OF BHARATIYA JANSANG
 HE WAS THE INDEPENDENT INDIA’S FIRST MINISTER OF INDUSTRY AND SUPPLY AND
FOUNDER OF BHARATIYA JANA SANGH. SHYAMA PRASAD WAS A QUALIFIED
BARRISTER AND WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT EDUCATION.
 DURING MUKHERJEE’S TERM AS VICE-CHANCELLOR, RABINDRANATH TAGORE
DELIVERED THE UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION ADDRESS IN BENGALI FOR THE FIRST TIME,
AND THE INDIAN VERNACULAR WAS INTRODUCED AS A SUBJECT FOR THE HIGHEST
EXAMINATION.

13. BHIMRAO RAMJI AMBEDKAR
 (1891-1956) BORN: MADHYA PRADESH. CHAIRMAN OF THE DRAFTING COMMITTEE. HE
WAS SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY THINKER AND AGITATOR AGAINST CASTE DIVISIONS
AND CASTE BASED INEQUALITIES. LATER HE WAS THE LAW MINISTER IN THE FIRST
CABINET OF POST-INDEPENDENCE INDIA. HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF REPUBLICAN
PARTY OF INDIA.
 ALSO KNOWN AS BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR , WAS AN
INDIAN JURIST, ECONOMIST, POLITICIAN AND SOCIAL REFORMER, WHO INSPIRED
THE DALIT BUDDHIST MOVEMENT AND CAMPAIGNED AGAINST
SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION TOWARDS THE UNTOUCHABLES (DALITS).
 HE WAS BRITISH INDIA'S MINISTER OF LABOUR IN VICEROY'S EXECUTIVE COUNCIL,
CHAIRMAN OF THE CONSTITUENT DRAFTING COMMITTEE, INDEPENDENT INDIA'S
FIRST MINISTER OF LAW AND JUSTICE, AND CONSIDERED THE CHIEF ARCHITECT OF
THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA.

14. SOMNATH LAHIRI
 (1901-1984) BORN: WEST BENGAL. HE WAS A WRITER AND EDITOR. A LEADER OF
THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA. LATER HE WAS MEMBER OF WEST BENGAL
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
 HE WAS A PART OF THE CALCUTTA TRAMWAY WORKERS UNION AND THE CALCUTTA
COMMUNIST PARTY WING.LAHIRI WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FORMATION OF THE
PARTY’S CALCUTTA COMMITTEE,AND ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE EFFORT TO SET UP
THE ALL INDIA COMMUNIST PARTY IN 1933
 A KEEN WRITER, ONE OF HIS MOST NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS WAS A COLLECTION OF
SHORT STORIES TITLED KOLI YUGER GALPO. HE WAS ALSO AN ACCOMPLISHED
JOURNALIST WHO EDITED. THE BENGALI-LANGUAGE NEWSLETTER FOR THE
COMMUNIST PARTY.

15. SYED MUHAMMAD SAADULLA
 SIR SYED MUHAMMAD SAADULLA WAS BORN ON MAY 21 1885 IN
GUWAHATI,INDIAAND HE DIED ON JANUARY 8 1919.HE WAS THE PRIME
MINISTER OF ASSAM IN BRITISH INDIA.
 HE WAS ALSO THE CHAIRMAN OF GAUHATI MUNICIPALITY IN 1919 AND
MINISTER-IN-CHARGE OF EDUCATION AND AGRICULTURE FOR ASSAM FROM
1924 TO 1934. HE WAS EDUCATED AT COTTON COLLEGE, GUWAHATI AND AT
PRESIDENCY COLLEGE, CALCUTTA.
 SAADULLA WAS ELECTED TO THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY FROM ASSAM. HE WAS
ONE OF 28 MUSLIM LEAGUE MEMBERS WHO ATTENDED THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE
ASSEMBLY AND WAS THE ONLY MEMBER FROM THE MUSLIM LEAGUE TO SIT ON THE
DRAFTING COMMITTEE. HIS INTERVENTIONS IN THE ASSEMBLY REVOLVED AROUND
SECURING ASSAM’S FINANCIAL STABILITY, AND MINORITY RIGHTS.

16. JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
 (1889-1964) BORN: UTTAR PRADESH. THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE INTERIM
GOVERNMENT. A LAWYER AND CONGRESS LEADER. ADVOCATE OF SOCIALISM,
DEMOCRACY AND ANTI-IMPERIALISM. LATER HE WAS FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF
INDIA.
 ON OCTOBER 31, 1940 PT. NEHRU WAS ARRESTED FOR OFFERING INDIVIDUAL SATYAGRAHA TO
PROTEST AGAINST INDIA’S FORCED PARTICIPATION IN WAR. HE WAS RELEASED ALONG WITH THE
OTHER LEADERS IN DECEMBER 1941. ON AUGUST 7, 1942 PT. NEHRU MOVED THE HISTORIC ‘QUIT
INDIA’ RESOLUTION AT THE A.I.C.C.
 UNTIL THE AGE OF 16, NEHRU WAS EDUCATED AT HOME BY A SERIES OF ENGLISH
GOVERNESSES AND TUTORS. ONLY ONE OF THOSE—A PART-IRISH, PART-BELGIAN
THEOSOPHIST, FERDINAND BROOKS—APPEARS TO HAVE MADE ANY IMPRESSION ON
HIM. JAWAHARLAL ALSO HAD A VENERABLE INDIAN TUTOR WHO TAUGHT
HIM HINDI AND SANSKRIT. IN 1905 HE WENT TO HARROW.

17. MOTURI SATYANARAYANA
 SATYANARAYANA MOTURI BORN ON 2 FEBRUARY 1902 AND DIED 6 MARCH 1995 WAS AN
INDIAN INDEPENDENCE ACTIVIST ALONGSIDE MOHANDAS GANDHI UNTIL 1947 AND THEN
A MEMBER OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA WHICH DRAFTED THE INDIAN
CONSTITUTION. HE WAS A NOMINATED MEMBER OF THE RAJYA SABHA (THE UPPER
HOUSE IN THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT) UNTIL 1966.HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN MAKING
HINDI AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF INDIA.
 THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA AWARDED HIM THE PADMA SHRI IN 1958 AND PADMA BHUSHAN
IN 1962 FOR HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN INDIA. HE WAS
ALSO HONOURED BY ANDHRA UNIVERSITY WITH THE KALA PRAPOORNA AWARD IN 1977.
 IN ADDITION TO HIS WRITINGS IN NEWS PUBLICATIONS, HE WROTE ON THE POSITION AND
FUNCTION OF TELEGU IN 1981.

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