During the communal riots that ensued in the wake of Partition she helped set up a peace volunteer organization,‘Shanti Dal’ which became a powerful anti-communal force during those troubled times.

Anis Kidwai in her book, "In Freedom's Shade", mentions many instances when she and Subhadra Joshi would rush to different villages around Delhi to try and stop the forced evacuation of Muslims and maintain peace.

[5] She was also very close to Rafi Ahmad Kidwai and recalled his role in encouraging her in politics in an interview she gave in December 1987.

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.

90 dated 19 December 1957[13]) "to remove the hardship caused to a woman in spending money on litigation when her husband commits the offence of bigamy".

[14] Her crowning achievement however was her successful move to amend the code for Criminal Procedure that made any organized propaganda leading to communal tensions or enmity a cognizable offence.

[2] Subhadra Joshi died on 30 October 2003, at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Delhi, after a prolonged illness at the age of 84.