You know the Constitution. You don't know the women who built it.

In 1946, as India stood on the edge of independence, 299 people sat down to write the rules of the world's largest democracy. Fifteen of them were women. And almost no one remembers their names.

The Fifteen changes that.

Meet the Dalit woman who walked into that hall carrying the weight of centuries of exclusion. The Gandhian who argued passionately for women's rights in a room full of men. The aristocrat who fought for the poorest citizens her class had long ignored. Fifteen women. Fifteen extraordinary lives. One founding document that still governs 1.4 billion people.

The debates these women led, over personal laws, reservations, the rights of detainees, a uniform civil code, are not historical footnotes. They are the arguments India is still having today.

'We are here laying down principles for days to come, for generations, for the nation.'

They were. And it's long past time we knew their names.