# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dakshayani-velayudhan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:37:07.276Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dakshayani-velayudhan"
name: "Dakshayani Velayudhan"
slug: "dakshayani-velayudhan"
description: "Dakshayani Velayudhan was an Indian politician and leader of the oppressed classes. Belonging to the Pulayar community, she was among the first generation of people to be educated from the community. She holds several distinctions including becoming the first woman from her community to wear an upper cloth, the first Scheduled Caste woman graduate in India, a science graduate, a member of the Cochin Legislative Council and of being one of nine female members of the Constituent Assembly of India. But it is not correct to mention that she was one of the first women from her community to wear an upper cloth. Her elder sister and her mother Thayyithara Maani may be given this credit prior to her. Her mother Maani lived up to the post independent period in India and died in 1959."
tagline: "Indian politician"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1912-07-04"
deathDate: "1978-07-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.225884
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump