Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

Daughter of Raja Harnam Singh of Kapurthala, educated in England and long resident at Manorville, Shimla. She was Gandhi's secretary for sixteen years, took part in the Dandi and Quit India movements, and was imprisoned.

She carried the Dhami firing to Gandhi and Nehru. As a member of the Constituent Assembly and then independent India's first Health Minister (1947–57), she founded AIIMS New Delhi and was the first woman to preside over the World Health Assembly.