Sundarwati Nawal Prabhakar (1922–2010) was an

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...

politician from Delhi. She represented

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in the

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Early life

Sundarwati was born on 9 September 1922 in Delhi. She received education till the under-metric level.

Career

Sundarwati was involved in the

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and participated in the 1942

Quit India Movement The Quit India Movement, also known as the August Kranti Movement, was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8th August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British rule ...

. She volunteered for the Defence Fund during the

Sino-Indian War The Sino-Indian War took place between China and India from October to November 1962, as a major flare-up of the Sino-Indian border dispute. There had been a series of violent border skirmishes between the two countries after the 1959 Tibet ...

(1962) and

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 or the Second Kashmir War was a culmination of skirmishes that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 between Pakistan and India. The conflict began following Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar, which was d ...

. In recognition for her social service, she was awarded a shield by the then

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. She was the director of Delhi Scheduled Castes Financial and Development Corporation and a member of the

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from 1972–80 and 1982–84. She won the

1980 Indian general election General elections were held in India on 3 and 6 January 1980 to elect the members of the 7th Lok Sabha. The Janata Party alliance came into power in the 1977 general elections amidst public anger with the Indian National Congress (INC) and th ...

and represented

in the

. During her term as a Member of Parliamemt, Sunderwati served on the Committee on Private Members' Bills and Resolutions. She was also a member of the managing committee of the Shivaji College and the Social Welfare Board in Delhi.

Personal life

Sundarwati married INC politician

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in 1936 and had eight children from him. She died on 24 March 2010 in Delhi.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Prabhakar, Sundarwati Nawal 1922 births 2010 deaths India MPs 1984–1989 Women members of the Lok Sabha Lok Sabha members from Delhi Indian National Congress politicians from Delhi