“Achyut Chetan’s founding mothers are eleven women members of the Constituent Assembly omitted from Histories of the Indian Constitution. In this impressively researched, thoroughly analysed, and persuasively written account of the arguments of the ‘missing mothers’, Chetan illuminates the distinct moral vision of the women framers of the Constitution. Going beyond the usual documents, the author examines the work of committees and Sub-Committees, Memoranda, amendments, notes of dissent, correspondence, and legislative debates.