Rajkumari Amrit Kaur served as the first Health Minister of independent India from 1947 to 1957 in Jawaharlal Nehru's first cabinet. She was a prominent figure in the Indian independence movement, a Gandhian, and a social reformer. She was also a member of the Constituent Assembly.
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