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332 T HEMES IN INDIAN H ISTORY – P ART III One of the groups mentioned by Ranga, the tribals, List of women members of the constituent assembly had among its representatives to the Assembly the gifted orator Jaipal Singh. In welcoming the Objectives Name of the Date of Constituency Resolution, Singh said: Member Signing Register ... as an Adibasi, I am not expected to understand the legal intricacies of the 1. Ammu 9 Dec.1946 Madras/ Resolution. But my common sense tells me Swaminathan General that every one of us should march in that road to freedom and fight together. Sir, if there 2. Annie 29 Dec.1948 Travancore Mascarene and Cochin is any group of Indian people that has been Union shabbily treated it is my people. They have been disgracefully treated, neglected for the 3. Begum 14 Dec. 1947 United AizazRasul Provinces/ last 6,000 years. … The whole history of my Muslim people is one of continuous exploitation and dispossession by the non-aboriginals of India 4. Dakshayani 9 Dec. 1946 Madras/ Velayudan General punctuated by rebellions and disorder, and yet I take Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru at his 5. G. Durgabai 9 Dec. 1946 Madras/ word. I take you all at your word that now we General are going to start a new chapter, a new 6. Hansa 9 Dec.1946 Bombay/ chapter of independent India where there is Mehta General equality of opportunity, where no one would 7. Kamla 9 Dec.1946 United be neglected. Chaudhri Provinces/ General Singh spoke eloquently on the need to protect the tribes, and ensure conditions that could help them come up to the level of the general population. Tribes 8. Leela Ray 9 Dec.1946 West Bengal/ were not a numerical minority, he argued, but they General needed protection. They had been dispossessed of the land they had settled, deprived of their forests and 9. Malati 9 Dec.1946 Orissa/ Chowdhury General pastures, and forced to move in search of new homes. Perceiving them as primitive and backward, the rest 10. Purnima 9 Dec.1946 United Banerji Provinces/ of society had turned away from them, spurned them. General He made a moving plea for breaking the emotional and physical distance that separated the tribals from 11. Rajkumari 21 Dec.1946 Central AmritKaur Provinces the rest of society: “Our point is that you have got to and Berar/ mix with us. We are willing to mix with you … ”. General Singh was not asking for separate electorates, but 12. Renuka Ray 14 July 1947 West he felt that reservation of seats in the legislature Bangal/ was essential to allow tribals to represent General themselves. It would be a way, he said, of compelling 13. Sarojini 9 Dec.1946 Bihar/ others to hear the voice of tribals, and come near Naidu General them. 14. Sucheta 9 Dec.1946 United 3.3 “We were suppressed for thousands of years” Kripalani Provinces/ How were the rights of the Depressed Castes to be General defined by the Constitution? During the national 15. Vijayalakshmi 17 Dec.1946 United movement Ambedkar had demanded separate Pandit Provinces/ electorates for the Depressed Castes, and Mahatma General Gandhi had opposed it, arguing that this would Reprint 2026-27