Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (02 February 1889 – 06 February 1964) was a renowned Gandhian, freedom fighter and a social activist. She was one of the 15 women members of the Constituent Assembly, the body that framed the constitution of India. She also became the first woman to hold a cabinet position in India as health minister in the Nehru Cabinet. She held the office for ten years.
Rajkumari Bibiji Amrit Kaur was born on 2nd February 1889 in the royal family of Kapurthala in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. She and her seven brothers were the eight children of Rājā Harnam Singh, the younger son of the Maharaja of Kapurthala State in the Punjab region and his wife Rani Priscilla Kaur Sahiba. Her father was closely associated with prominent leaders of the freedom movement such as Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
Kaur’s early education was at Sherborne School for Girls in Dorset, England. She did her graduation from Oxford University, London, and....
