RAJKUMARI ,AMRIT KAUR OF KAPURTHALA STATE , BECAME FREEDOM FIGHTER BORN FEBRUARY 2, 1889
RAJKUMARI ,AMRIT KAUR OF KAPURTHALA STATE , BECAME FREEDOM FIGHTER BORN FEBRUARY 2, 1889 Rajkumari Amrit Kaur DStJ (2 February 1889 – 6 February 1964) was the first health minister of India and served for ten years in the capacity. She was an eminent Gandhian, a freedom fighter, and a social activist. Kaur was also a member of the Constituent Assembly, the body that framed the constitution of India. Early life[edit source] 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[1] 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, sh...