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{{Short description|Indian politician and diplomat}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Diwan Chaman Lall
| image =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|10|30|df=yes}}
| birth_name = Chaman Lall
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|11|12|1892|10|30|df=yes}}<ref name="chaman">{{cite web|url= https://www.constitutionofindia.net/constituent_assembly_members/diwan_chaman_lall|title=Diwan Chaman Lall|website=www.constitutionofindia.net|access-date=23 September 2021}}</ref>
| occupation = Politician, diplomat
| father = Dewan Bahadur Daulat Rai
| spouse = Dr. Helen Khan
| children = 3
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| office1 = [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha|Member of Rajya Sabha]]
| term_start1 = 1952
| term_end1 = 1958
| office2 = 1st Indian Ambassadors to Turkey<ref name="ambassador">{{cite web|url= https://www.indembassyankara.gov.in/page/ambturkey/|title=Indian Ambassadors to Turkey|access-date=23 September 2021}}</ref>
| term_start2 = 1948
| term_end2 = 1949
| predecessor2 = ''Office Establish''
| successor2 = C.S.Jha
| office3 = [[1937 Punjab Provincial Assembly election|Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start3 = 1937
| term_end3 = 1945
| constituency3 = Eastern Punjab
| predecessor3 = ''Office Establish''
| successor3 = Daud Ghaznavi
| office4 = [[Central Legislative Assembly|Member of Central Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start4 = [[1923 Indian general election|1924]]
| term_end4 = [[1926 Indian general election|1931]]
| constituency4 = West Punjab
| predecessor4 = Dr. Nand Lal
| office5 = [[Constituent Assembly of India|Member of Constituent Assembly]]
| president5 = [[Rajendra Prasad]]
| term_start5 = 1946
| term_end5 = 1948
}}

'''Diwan Chaman Lall''' (30 October 1892 – 12 November 1973) was an Indian politician and diplomat who served as a Member of the [[Rajya Sabha]].<ref>Parliamentary Debates: Official Report. Rajya Sabha, Volume 86, Issues 1-7</ref>

== Early life ==
Chaman Lall was born on 30 October 1892 to Dewan Bahadur Daulat Rai. He received an [[honors degree]] in jurisprudence from [[Jesus College, Oxford]], later called to the bar at [[Middle Temple]] in [[London]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stewart|first1=John|title=Standing for Justice: A Biography of Andrew MacLaren MP|date=2001}}</ref> He worked a journalist, first for the art and literature quarterly magazine ''Coterie'', in London, then as editor and Chief Leader Writer for the newspaper ''[[The Bombay Chronicle]]''.<ref name="Reed">{{cite book|last1=Reed|first1=Stanley|authorlink1=Stanley Reed (British politician)|title=The Indian And Pakistan Year Book And Who's Who 1950|date=1950|publisher=[[The Times Group|Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd.]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.15206/page/n740 706]|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.15206|access-date=20 February 2018}}</ref>

==In freedom movement==
Lall was a founder and first general secretary of the [[All India Trade Union Congress]] in 1920, later becoming its President in 1927.<ref name="Reed"/> He established himself as a leader of workers' unions, serving as president of the Federation of Posts and Telegraphs Union, All India telegraph Workmen's Union, All India Postal and R.M.S. Union, All India Press Workers' Union, NWFP Railway Workmen's Union and the EP Railway Union. Lall was a member of the Royal Commission on Labour in India during 1929–30. He recommended that the working hours of industrial workers be reduced and that [[Legal working age|minimum age for employment]] at factories be raised to 13 years. He also suggested that the government take steps towards it in conformity with the 1921 Convention that dealt with the same.<ref>{{cite book|title=Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India|date=1931|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.1111/page/n73 51]–52|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.1111|access-date=20 February 2018}}</ref> He represented workers' interests at the [[Round Table Conferences (India)#First Round Table Conference (November 1930 – January 1931)|first Round Table Conference]] in 1930–31.<ref name="Reed"/> Lall served as delegate at the [[International Labour Organization]] conference in [[Geneva]] and led India's delegation at the 1946 Montreal Conference.

As politician, Lall served as a member of the [[Central Legislative Assembly]] first from 1924 to 1931, and then between 1944 and 1946. From [[1937 Punjab Provincial Assembly election|1937 to 1945]], he served as member of the [[Punjab Legislative Assembly]] from Eastern Punjab constituency reserved for Trade and Labour Unions. In 1946, Lall became a member of the [[Constituent Assembly of India]] before he resigned in two years later.

=== Constitution making===
In 1946, Chaman Lall was elected to the [[Constituent Assembly of India|Constituent Assembly]] from East Punjab representing the All-India Trade Union Congress party. However, he resigned after two years. He spoke on voting rights of people who migrated to India after the partition.

During his tenure in constitutional assembly, contribute by working in Committees of the Constituent Assembly: Steering Committee and Provincial Constitution Committee.<ref name="chaman"/>

==After Independence==
He served as India's 1st Ambassador to Turkey from 1948 to 1950.<ref name="ambassador"/> Lall was [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha|Member of Rajya Sabha]] for three consecutive term 1952 to 1968.<ref name="chaman"/>

During his tenure, as a Rajya Sabha member, Lall introduced a private member bill to amend provisions on obscenity in the Indian Penal Code (1963).<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1786340|title=Bill Diwan Chaman Lall amend the Indian Penal Code to make the Provisions of Sections 292 and 293|access-date=23 September 2021}}</ref> He proposed in the bill, to exempt works of art, or publications meant for research, science or literature from the applicability of obscenity provisions. The amendment was passed in 1969.

==Personal life==
He married Dr. Helen Khan and had three children with her; sons Prakash, Navin Prakash and Rahul.<ref name="Reed"/>

== Bibliography ==
* {{cite book|last1=Lall|first1=D. Chaman|title=Coolie: The Story of Labour and Capital in India|date=1932|publisher=Oriental Publishing House|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ON6iZwEACAAJ}}

== References ==
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[[Category:Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford]]
[[Category:Members of the Middle Temple]]
[[Category:Members of Central Legislative Assembly of India]]
[[Category:Members of the Constituent Assembly of India]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of India to Turkey]]
[[Category:Rajya Sabha members from Punjab, India]]
[[Category:Indian barristers]]
[[Category:Indian journalists]]

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