Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Born	2 February 1889 Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died	6 February 1964 New Delhi, India
Organization	Indian National Congress, St John Ambulance, Tuberculosis Association, Indian Red Cross, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Movement	Indian Independence movement

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur DStJ (2 February 1889 – 6 February 1964) was the first health minister of independent India & served for ten years in the capacity. She was an eminent Gandhian, a freedom fighter, and a social activist.She was also a member of the Constituent Assembly, the body that framed the constitution of India.

Amrit Kaur was born on 2 February 1889 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (then United Provinces), India. She and her seven brothers were the eight children of Rājā Harnam Singh, a member of the princely family of Kapurthala State in the Punjab region and his wife Rāni Harnām Singh, who was the daughter of a Bengali Presbyterian mother and an Anglican father.

She had her early education in Sherborne School For Girls in Dorset, England, and had her college education at Oxford University. After completing her education in England, she returned to India.

Raja Harnam Singh enjoyed the confidence of many Indian National Congress (INC) party leaders, including Gopal Krishna Gokhale. After her return to India from England, she got interested in India's freedom struggle through the occasional visits of those leaders to her father's home. After meeting in person Mahatma Gandhi in 1919 in Bombay (Mumbai), she felt drawn to his thoughts and vision for the country. The notorious Jallianwala Bagh massacre of mostly Sikhs the same year by the British Raj troops convinced her of the necessity of India's gaining its freedom from the Raj. She joined the INC, and began to participate in India's struggle for freedom, and also in social reform activities in India.

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