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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Tarkeshwari Sinha
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1926|12|26|df=y}}
|birth_place = Tulsigarh, [[Nalanda District]], [[Bihar]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|2007|08|14|1926|12|26|df=y}}
|death_place = [[New Delhi]]
| constituency = [[Barh]] ([[Bihar]])
| office = [[Member of Parliament]]
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| party =[[Indian National Congress]]
| nationality = [[India]]n
| alma_mater= [[London School of Economics]]
|Spouse=nidhidev singh

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'''Tarkeshwari Sinha''' (26 December 1926 – 14 August 2007) was an Indian politician and [[Indian independence movement|independence activist]] from [[Bihar]]. Among the first female politicians of the country, she took active role in the [[Quit India Movement]]. At the age of 26, she was elected to the [[1st Lok Sabha]] from Patna East constituency in 1952. Subsequently, she was re-elected to the [[Lok Sabha]] in 1957, 1962 and 1967 from [[Barh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Barh]] constituency. She was the first female Deputy Finance Minister in the union cabinet led by prime minister. [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] from 1958-64.<ref name="SPS"/><ref name="ABP"/><ref name="Qureshi 2004 920"/> She had also led a delegation to the [[U.N.]] and [[Tokyo]].<ref name="Qureshi 2004 920"/> [[Gulzar (lyricist)|Gulzar]]’s critically acclaimed movie, [[Aandhi]] was partly inspired by Tarkeshwari Sinha, apart from [[Indira Gandhi]].<ref name="WVG"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?211174 |title=Mrs. G's String of Beaus |author=Sanjay Suri}}</ref>

== Early life ==
She was born in Tulsigarh village near [[Chandi, Bihar|Chandi]] under [[Nalanda District]] in a Bhumihar Family .
She was a student of Bankipore Girls College, now known as [[Magadh Mahila College]], in Patna. She was the President of the Bihar Students Congress, which had broken away from the [[All India Students Federation]]. She did her M.Sc in economics from the [[London School of Economics]].<ref name="ABP" />

She actively participated in the [[Quit India Movement]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.veethi.com/india-people/tarkeshwari_sinha-profile-9504-19.htm|title=Tarkeshwari Sinha|website=veethi.com|access-date=2017-08-19}}</ref> she was married to nidhi dev singh a vakeel.

== Career ==
She contested elections from the Barh constituency in Bihar. After Indian Independence, she won the first general assembly elections from the Patna East Constituency in 1952, after getting a ticket from the Indian National Congress. Through Congress party, she got re-elected in 1957, 1962 and 1967.<ref name=":0" />

Sinha appeared on the game show [[To Tell the Truth]] on 19 November 1957, fooling two of the four members on the panel.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAod169FADM YouTube]</ref>

She was considered close to [[Morarji Desai]] and was on his side in the battle of succession between Desai and [[Indira Gandhi]] to replace [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]] as Prime Minister. When Desai and other leaders resigned from Congress to form a splinter group, she too joined it. In the Indira wave during [[1971 Indian general election|1971 Lok Sabha elections]], she lost from [[Barh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Barh]] as Congress(O) candidate to the Congress nominee Dharamvir Sinha, her first taste of electoral defeat. She lost the assembly election next year as well, and returned to Indira Gandhi's party. In 1977, she fought Lok Sabha election from [[Begusarai (Lok Sabha constituency)|Begusarai]] as Congress candidate and lost in the Janata wave as Congress was completely routed in Bihar. After this defeat, she fought a by-election to Lok Sabha in November 1978 from [[Samastipur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Samastipur]] as Congress candidate but lost again.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

Eventually, she retired from politics and took up social work.<ref name="ABP" />

== Social Work ==
Tarkeshwari Sinha, had set up a hospital, in Tulsigarh, in the memory of her brother Capt Girish Nandan Singh, pilot with Air India who died in an air crash in New Delhi. She had raised nearly Rs 25 lakh, a big sum in those days, for the construct of the two floored hospital where treatment was almost free. She also took the initiative to construct a road to link the village with Chandi and Harnaut in Nalanda.<ref name="ABP" />

==References==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="ABP">{{cite news | url = http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070822/edit.htm | title = A Beautiful Politician | author = A.J.Philip | work = [[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]] | date = 2008-04-04 | accessdate = 2008-04-04
}}</ref>
<ref name="Qureshi 2004 920">{{cite book|first = Muniruddin|last = Qureshi|title = Social Status of Indian Women: emancipation | publisher = Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd. | year = 2004|isbn = 978-81-261-1360-6|page = 920}}</ref>
<ref name="SPS">{{cite news|url = http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=53769302-2ce3-495f-93e6-8eea0cbe6749&MatchID1=4679&TeamID1=6&TeamID2=3&MatchType1=1&SeriesID1=1179&MatchID2=4674&TeamID3=4&TeamID4=8&MatchType2=1&SeriesID2=1177&PrimaryID=4679&Headline=Beauty+%26amp%3b+brains |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080930164954/http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=53769302-2ce3-495f-93e6-8eea0cbe6749&MatchID1=4679&TeamID1=6&TeamID2=3&MatchType1=1&SeriesID1=1179&MatchID2=4674&TeamID3=4&TeamID4=8&MatchType2=1&SeriesID2=1177&PrimaryID=4679&Headline=Beauty+%26amp%3B+brains |url-status = dead |archive-date = 30 September 2008 | title = Beauty and Brains | author = R. Vatsyayan | publisher = [[The Hindustan Times]] | date = 2008-04-04 | accessdate = 2008-04-04}}</ref>
<ref name="WVG">{{cite news | url = http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/07/20/stories/09200221.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20011217234852/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/07/20/stories/09200221.htm | url-status = usurped | archive-date = 17 December 2001 | title = Where is reality? | author = V. Gangadhar | publisher = [[The Hindu]] | date = 2008-04-04 |accessdate = 2008-04-04}}</ref>
}}

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[[Category:20th-century Indian women politicians]]
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[[Category:1st Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:2nd Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:3rd Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:4th Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:Indian independence activists from Bihar]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Bihar]]
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Bihar]]
[[Category:Politicians from Patna]]
[[Category:Union deputy ministers of India]]
[[Category:Women in Bihar politics]]
[[Category:Women Indian independence activists]]
[[Category:Women union ministers of India]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress (Organisation) politicians]]

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