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	== Death and legacy ==		== Death and legacy ==
	Subhadra Joshi died on 30 October 2003, at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Delhi, after a prolonged illness at the age of 86.<ref name=hindu2011>{{cite news \|title=Subhadra Joshi dead \|url=http://www.hindu.com/2003/10/31/stories/2003103101701300.htm \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031224123409/http://www.hindu.com/2003/10/31/stories/2003103101701300.htm \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=24 December 2003 \|work=[[The Hindu]] \|date=31 October 2003 }}</ref> She had no children.<ref name="hindu2011" /> A commemorative stamp was issued in her honour by [[India Post\|Department of Posts]] on her [[List of postage stamps of India#2011\|birth anniversary, 23 March 2011]].<ref>[http://mbstamps.blogspot.in/2011/03/subhadra-joshi.html MB's Stamps of India: Subhadra Joshi]. Mbstamps.blogspot.in (23 March 2011). Retrieved on 2018-11-11.</ref>		Subhadra Joshi died on 30 October 2003, at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Delhi, after a prolonged illness at the age of 84.<ref name=hindu2011>{{cite news \|title=Subhadra Joshi dead \|url=http://www.hindu.com/2003/10/31/stories/2003103101701300.htm \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031224123409/http://www.hindu.com/2003/10/31/stories/2003103101701300.htm \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=24 December 2003 \|work=[[The Hindu]] \|date=31 October 2003 }}</ref> She had no children.<ref name="hindu2011" /> A commemorative stamp was issued in her honour by [[India Post\|Department of Posts]] on her [[List of postage stamps of India#2011\|birth anniversary, 23 March 2011]].<ref>[http://mbstamps.blogspot.in/2011/03/subhadra-joshi.html MB's Stamps of India: Subhadra Joshi]. Mbstamps.blogspot.in (23 March 2011). Retrieved on 2018-11-11.</ref>

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'''Subhadra Joshi''' (''[[née]]'' [[Dutta|Datta]]; 23 March 1919 – 30 October 2003) was a noted [[India]]n freedom activist, politician and parliamentarian from [[Indian National Congress]]. She took part
in the 1942 [[Quit India movement]], and later remained the president of the [[Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee]] (DPCC).<ref name=hindu2011/> She belonged to a well known family in [[Sialkot]] (now in [[Pakistan]]).<ref name="pib.nic.in">[http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=71217 Press Information Bureau English Releases]. Pib.nic.in. Retrieved on 11 November 2018.</ref> Her father V.N Datta was a police officer with the [[Jaipur State]] and a cousin, Krishnan Gopal Datta was an active Congressman in [[Punjab, India|Punjab]].

==Early life and education==
She did her schooling from the Maharaja Girls' School, Jaipur, the Lady Maclegan High School, [[Lahore]] and the Kanya Mahavidyalaya at [[Jalandhar]]. She obtained a master's degree in Political Science from the [[Forman Christian College]], Lahore.<ref name=r1>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235813/http://seculardemocracy.in/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/profile2.298222135.jpg Subhadra Joshi (nee Datta) – A Brief Biographical Account]. Commemoration Volume. p. 30. seculardemocracy.in</ref> It was during her college days that she became involved with political activities.

==Career==

=== Role in the freedom struggle ===
Attracted by the ideals of [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|Gandhi]]ji, she visited his Ashram at [[Wardha]] when she was studying in Lahore. As a student she took part in the [[Quit India Movement]] in 1942 and worked with [[Aruna Asaf Ali]].<ref>[http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/commemorative-postage-stamp-on-freedom-fighter-subhadra-joshi-released-by-pratibha-patil-1301314898-1 Commemorative Postage Stamp on Freedom Fighter Subhadra Joshi released by Pratibha Patil]. Jagranjosh.com (28 March 2011). Retrieved on 2018-11-11.</ref> During this time, she relocated to Delhi where she went underground and edited a journal ‘Hamara Sangram’. She was arrested and after serving time at the Lahore Women's Central Jail, she started working among industrial workers.

During the communal riots that ensued in the wake of [[Partition of India|Partition]] she helped set up a peace volunteer organization,‘Shanti Dal’ which became a powerful anti-communal force during those troubled times. Joshi was made the party convenor.<ref name=":0" /> She also organized rehabilitation of evacuees from Pakistan. [[Anis Kidwai]] in her book, "In Freedom's Shade", mentions many instances when she and Subhadra Joshi would rush to different villages around Delhi to try and stop the forced evacuation of Muslims and maintain peace.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=In freedom's shade|last=1906-1982.|first=Qidvāʼī, Anis|date=2011|publisher=New India Foundation|isbn=9780143416098|location=[Bangalore]|oclc=713787016}}</ref> She was also very close to [[Rafi Ahmed Kidwai|Rafi Ahmad Kidwai]] and recalled his role in encouraging her in politics in an interview she gave in December 1987.<ref>{{Citation|last=Media Office, Jamia Millia Islamia|title=Subhadra Joshi (on Rafi Ahmad Kidwai) in conversation with Desraj Goyal (Jamia media)|date=2017-03-23|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcw06WTgc1E|access-date=2019-03-30}}</ref> In a 1998 interview with Sagari Chhabra, Joshi talked about her work trying to maintain communal harmony during the Partition.<ref name=":1" />

===Role in Independent India===
Subhadra Joshi was an ardent secularist who dedicated her life to the cause of communal harmony in India. She spent several months in [[Sagar, Madhya Pradesh|Sagar]] when the first major post independence riots of India broke out there in 1961. The following year she set up the 'Sampradayikta Virodhi Committee' as a common anti-communal political platform and in 1968, launched the journal Secular Democracy in support of the cause. In 1971, the Qaumi Ekta Trust was established to further the cause of secularism and communal amity in the country.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212726/http://seculardemocracy.in/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/profile4.298222414.jpg Subhadra Joshi (nee Datta) – A Brief Biographical Account]. Commemoration Volume. p. 32. seculardemocracy.in</ref>

=== As a parliamentarian ===
She was a parliamentarian for four terms from 1952–1977 - from [[Karnal (Lok Sabha constituency)|Karnal]] (Haryana) in 1952, [[Ambala (Lok Sabha constituency)|Ambala]] (Haryana) in 1957, [[Balrampur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Balrampur]] (Uttar Pradesh) in 1962 and from the [[Chandni Chowk (Lok Sabha constituency)|Chandni Chowk]] [[Lok Sabha]] constituency in 1971.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mapsofindia.com/parliamentaryconstituencies/delhi/chandni-chowk.html|title=Chandni Chowk Parliamentary Constituency Map, Election Results and Winning MP|website=www.mapsofindia.com|access-date=2019-03-30}}</ref> After defeating Atal Behari Vajpayee in Balrampur in 1962, she then lost 1967 Lok Sabha election to him from the same seat. She won Lok Sabha election from Chandani Chowk in Delhi in 1971 but lost from the same seat in 1977 to Sikandar Bakht. She became the first woman MP from the state of Punjab when she got elected from Karnal (then in Punjab).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/not-fair-punjab/745368.html|title=NOT 'fair' Punjab|date=March 19, 2019|work=The Tribune|access-date=March 30, 2019}}</ref> In an interview given in 1987, she recalled how it was decided that she should stand for the election from Karnal.<ref>{{Citation|last=Media Office, Jamia Millia Islamia|title=Subhadra Joshi (on Rafi Ahmad Kidwai) in conversation with Desraj Goyal (Jamia media)|date=2017-03-23|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcw06WTgc1E&t=1057|access-date=2019-03-30}}</ref> In the 1962 election, she defeated Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was the sitting MP from Balrampur.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sacw.net/article11346.html|title=India: 1998 interview with Subhadra Joshi by Sagari Chhabra|last=Web|first=South Asia Citizens|date=2019-03-30|website=South Asia Citizens Web|language=en|access-date=2019-03-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/156481/subhadra-joshi-vajpayee-freedom-struggle-parliament/|title=An Ode to The Pioneering Woman Who Handed Vajpayee a Rare Poll Defeat!|date=2018-08-20|website=The Better India|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-30}}</ref> She made important contributions to the passage of Special Marriage Act, the Nationalization of Banks, [[Privy Purse in India|Abolition of Privy Purses]] and the [[Aligarh University]] Amendment Act. She introduced the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill, 1957 (Bill No. 90 dated 19 December 1957<ref>{{Cite book|title=Women in the Indian parliament : (a critical study of their role)|last=K.|first=Chopra, J.|date=1993|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=8170995132|location=New Delhi|oclc=636124745}}</ref>) "to remove the hardship caused to a woman in spending money on litigation when her husband commits the offence of bigamy".<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.legallyindia.com/the-bench-and-the-bar/the-other-14-private-members-bills-passed-since-independence-20150424-5864|title=The other 14 private members' bills passed since Independence|last=Ganz|first=Kian|website=www.legallyindia.com|language=en-gb|access-date=2019-03-30}}</ref> It was passed in 1960 and is one of only 15 Private Members' Bills passed since independence.<ref name=":2" /> Her crowning achievement however was her successful move to amend the [[Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (India)|code for Criminal Procedure]] that made any organized propaganda leading to communal tensions or enmity a cognizable offence.<ref name="pib.nic.in"/> She is alleged to have had an affair with [[Indira Gandhi|Indira Gandhi's]] husband, [[Feroze Gandhi]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?211174 |title=Mrs. G's String of Beaus |author=Sanjay Suri}}</ref>

She was awarded the [[Rajiv Gandhi Sadhbhavana Award]] given by the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation.<ref name=hindu2011/>

== Death and legacy ==
Subhadra Joshi died on 30 October 2003, at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Delhi, after a prolonged illness at the age of 86.<ref name=hindu2011>{{cite news |title=Subhadra Joshi dead |url=http://www.hindu.com/2003/10/31/stories/2003103101701300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031224123409/http://www.hindu.com/2003/10/31/stories/2003103101701300.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 December 2003 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=31 October 2003 }}</ref> She had no children.<ref name="hindu2011" /> A commemorative stamp was issued in her honour by [[India Post|Department of Posts]] on her [[List of postage stamps of India#2011|birth anniversary, 23 March 2011]].<ref>[http://mbstamps.blogspot.in/2011/03/subhadra-joshi.html MB's Stamps of India: Subhadra Joshi]. Mbstamps.blogspot.in (23 March 2011). Retrieved on 2018-11-11.</ref>

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