303:(Amendment) Bill, 1957 (Bill No. 90 dated 19 December 1957) "to remove the hardship caused to a woman in spending money on litigation when her husband commits the offence of bigamy". It was passed in 1960 and is one of only 15 Private Members' Bills passed since independence. Her crowning achievement however was her successful move to amend the
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when the first major post independence riots of India broke out there in 1961. The following year she set up the 'Sampradayikta
Virodhi Committee' as a common anti-communal political platform and in 1968, launched the journal Secular Democracy in support of the cause. In 1971, the Qaumi Ekta Trust
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in 1971 but lost from the same seat in 1977 to
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she helped set up a peace volunteer organization,‘Shanti Dal’ which became a powerful anti-communal force during those troubled times. Joshi was made the party convenor. She also organized rehabilitation of evacuees from
Pakistan.
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Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience
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