Appendix: Texts and Contexts of the Framing – A Timeline

Summary

1906 Dadabhai Naoroji demands self-government

1909 Morley–Minto Reforms establish a parliamentary system in India

1914–1918 World War I

1917 The Montagu–Chelmsford Report visualizes India as a self-governing sisterhood of states presided over by a Central Government

1919 Massacre at Amritsar

December 1920 Congress resolution on the Non-coperation Movement in the Nagpur session

1919 The Government of India Act

1925 The Commonwealth of India Bill

1927 Foundation of the All India Women's Conference (AIWC)

1929 The Child Marriage Restraint Act

1930–1932 Round Table Conferences

26–31 March 1931 Resolution on Fundamental Rights passed by the Congress in its Karachi session

1932 Poona Pact between Gandhi and Ambedkar

24 November 1934 Legal Disabilities Day announced by the AIWC

1935 The Government of India Act

1937 First General Election in British India

1937 The Irish Constitution makes a distinction between justiciable and non-justiciable rights

1938 National Planning Committee established by the Indian National Congress

1939 Sub-Committee on Woman's Role in Planned Economy appointed

1939–1945 World War II

1942 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps; Cripps’ proposal that a constitution-making body be set up in India fails. This is the first recognition by the British of the need for a Constituent Assembly.

1943 Renuka Ray nominated to the Central Assembly (Legislative)

1944 Renuka Ray invited as special member of the Hindu Law Committee

1945 General Elections in Britain; Labour Government formed with Clement Attlee as Prime Minister

December 1945 Draft of the Indian Women's Charter of Rights and Dutie

16–18 February 1946 16 February: Two commissions formed: a Commission on Human Rights and a Sub-Commission on the Status of Women. 18 February: Amrit Kaur elected as a member of the Sub-Commission on Human Rights. However, Amrit Kaur was replaced by Hansa Mehta who attened the inaugural sessions of the Sub-Commission on Human Rights in New York from 29 April 1946 to 13 May 1946. When Mehta, later, moved to the Commission on Human Rights that drafted the UDHR, she was replaced by Hamid Ali on the Sub-Commission on the Status of Women.