Ammu Swaminathan (1894–1978) was an Indian politician and social activist. She was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India, which drafted the Constitution of independent India, and later served in the Parliament of India. She was associated with the Indian freedom movement and with women's rights advocacy in the twentieth century.
| Name | Ammu Swaminathan |
|---|---|
| Born | 1894 |
| Died | 1978 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Known for | Politics, social activism, role in the freedom movement |
| Notable role | Member of the Constituent Assembly of India |
Ammu Swaminathan came from a Kerala family and was active in public life during the late colonial and early post-independence period in India. Like several women of her generation who entered nationalist politics, she combined participation in the independence movement with sustained work on questions of women's status, education, and social reform.
Swaminathan was elected to the Constituent Assembly of India, the body that framed the Indian Constitution between 1946 and 1949. She was among a small group of women who took part in those deliberations. After independence, she continued in public life as a member of the Parliament of India.
Outside the legislature, she was associated with social and women's organisations that worked on welfare, civic education, and the political mobilisation of women in India.
Swaminathan is remembered as one of the women members of the Constituent Assembly and as a representative of the generation of Indian women who moved from nationalist activism into formal political and parliamentary roles after 1947. Her career illustrates the participation of women from southern India in the founding institutions of the Indian republic.