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Jaipal Singh Munda (3 January 1903 – 20 March 1970) was an Indian politician, writer, and sportsman. He was the member of the Constituent Assembly which debated on the new Constitution of the Indian Union. He captained the Indian field hockey team to clinch gold in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.
The Muslim League boycotted the Assembly, although 28 of its members out of 73 ended up joining India's Constituent Assembly. A large part of the Constituent Assembly was drawn from the Indian National Congress Party (69%), and included a wide diversity of ideologies and opinions—from conservatives, progressives, Marxists, liberals and Hindu ...
Awadhesh Pratap Singh; Baldev Singh; Deep Narayan Singh; Hukam Singh (Punjab politician) Jaipal Singh Munda; Jogendra Singh (politician) Kameshwar Singh; Dalel Singh; Nagendra Singh; Ranjit Singh (politician) Padampat Singhania; Anugrah Narayan Sinha; Braja Kishore Prasad Sinha; Rameshwar Prasad Sinha; Satya Narayan Sinha
Jaipal Singh Munda: 1927 1927 1928 (resignation) member Constituent Assembly: Birendra Narayan Chakraborty: 1928 Subimal Dutt: 1928 Foreign Secretary (India) Dharma Vira: 1931 Governor of West Bengal: S. Bhoothalingam: 1931 Finance Secretary of India Bhairab Dutt Pande: Governor of West Bengal: Lallan Prasad Singh: Governor of Assam: Lakshmi ...
Jaipal Singh Munda, former Indian Hockey team captain, politician and Member of the Constituent Assembly of India Manisa Panna , footballer Nikki Pradhan , hockey player [ 12 ] [ 13 ]
Member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly: Jaipal Singh Munda: Field Hockey: member of the Constituent Assembly: Wangnia Pongte: Football Member of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore: Shooting: Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports: Laxmi Ratan Shukla: Cricket: Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly ...
India adopted a republican constitution in 1950, after three years of debate in its Constituent Assembly. During the debate, Jaipal Singh, a member of Munda tribe from Central India advocated for special provisions for the 'Adibasi' -- a translation into Hindi of 'aboriginal'. His arguments proved persuasive.
[8] [better source needed] Post-independence, Jaipal Singh Munda, a representative of tribals in the Constituent Assembly, advocated for the term 'Adivasi'. [25] However, due to the need for legal connotation, Ambedkar rejected the use of such general socio-political terms in the Constitution by adopting ' Scheduled Tribe ' for tribals and ...