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In 1920, she spent time in [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s ashram close to [[Ahmedabad]]. She participated in daily chores including dairy work and spinning. She also worked in the office that used to publish ''[[Young India]]''.<ref name="Smith">{{cite book | last=Smith | first=B.G. | title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History | publisher=Oxford University Press | series=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History | issue=v. 1 | year=2008 | isbn=978-0-19-514890-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EFI7tr9XK6EC&pg=RA2-PA406 | page=2-PA406}}</ref>
In 1920, she spent time in [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s ashram close to [[Ahmedabad]]. She participated in daily chores including dairy work and spinning. She also worked in the office that used to publish ''[[Young India]]''.<ref name="Smith">{{cite book | last=Smith | first=B.G. | title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History | publisher=Oxford University Press | series=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History | issue=v. 1 | year=2008 | isbn=978-0-19-514890-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EFI7tr9XK6EC&pg=RA2-PA406 | page=2-PA406}}</ref>


Pandit was the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post in pre-independent India. In 1937, she was elected to the provincial legislature of the [[United Provinces (1937–50)|United Provinces]] and was designated minister of local self-government and public health.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pandit |first=Vijaya Lakshmi |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.22874/page/141/mode/2up?view=theater |title=So I became a Minister |publisher=Kitabistan |year=1939 |location=Allahabad |pages=141-143 |chapter=First Person, Singular |access-date=11 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://indianculture.gov.in/artefacts-museums/welcome-address-218 |title=Welcome address from Chairman of Municipal Board, Agra, to Smt. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit honouring her as Minister of Local Self Government and Health, and highlighting the poor civic conditions of Agra |publisher=Sainik Press |year=1938 |location=Allahabad |language=Hindi |access-date=12 September 2022 |via=[[Allahabad Museum]]}}</ref> She held the latter post until 1938 and again from 1946 to 1947.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Khan |first=Abdul Majid |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.121087/page/n153/mode/2up?view=theater |title=The Great Daughter of India |publisher=Indian Printing Works |year=1946 |location=Lahore |pages=152 |chapter=Lakshmi Resigns |access-date=12 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pandit |first=Vijaya Lakshmi |url=https://archive.org/details/scopeofhappiness00pand/page/200/mode/2up?view=theater |title=The Scope of Happiness: A Personal Memoir |publisher=Crown Publishers Inc. |year=1979 |isbn=0-517-53688-9 |location=New York |pages=200-201, 203, 204-205 |chapter=Interim Government |access-date=12 September 2022 |url-access=registration}}</ref> In 1946, she was elected to the [[Constituent Assembly of India|Constituent Assembly]] from the United Provinces.<ref>Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi (1979). "Interim Government". ''[https://archive.org/details/scopeofhappiness00pand/page/224/mode/2up?view=theater The Scope of Happiness: A Personal Memoir]''. New York: Crown Publishers Inc. pp. 225. {{ISBN|0-517-53688-9}}. Retrieved 12 September 2022.</ref>
Pandit was the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post in pre-independent India. In 1937, she was elected to the provincial legislature of the [[United Provinces (1937–50)|United Provinces]] and was designated minister of local self-government and public health.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pandit |first=Vijaya Lakshmi |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.22874/page/141/mode/2up?view=theater |title=So I became a Minister |publisher=Kitabistan |year=1939 |location=Allahabad |pages=141-143 |chapter=First Person, Singular |access-date=11 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://indianculture.gov.in/artefacts-museums/welcome-address-218 |title=Welcome address from Chairman of Municipal Board, Agra, to Smt. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit honouring her as Minister of Local Self Government and Health, and highlighting the poor civic conditions of Agra |publisher=Sainik Press |year=1938 |location=Allahabad |language=Hindi |access-date=12 September 2022 |via=[[Allahabad Museum]]}}</ref> She held the latter post until 1938 and again from 1946 to 1947.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Khan |first=Abdul Majid |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.121087/page/n153/mode/2up?view=theater |title=The Great Daughter of India |publisher=Indian Printing Works |year=1946 |location=Lahore |pages=152 |chapter=Lakshmi Resigns |access-date=12 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pandit |first=Vijaya Lakshmi |url=https://archive.org/details/scopeofhappiness00pand/page/200/mode/2up?view=theater |title=The Scope of Happiness: A Personal Memoir |publisher=Crown Publishers Inc. |year=1979 |isbn=0-517-53688-9 |location=New York |pages=200-201, 203, 204-205 |chapter=Interim Government |access-date=12 September 2022 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

She spent significant time in jail for her participation in independence movements. She was jailed for 18 months from 1931 - 1933. She was jailed again for 6 months in 1940 before getting jailed in 1942 for 7 months over her participation in [[Quit India Movement]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Bhagavan | first=M. | title=India and the Quest for One World: The Peacemakers | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK | series=Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-137-34983-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jfXRAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 | page=14}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Rappaport | first=Helen | title=Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers | publisher=ABC-CLIO | series=Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers | issue=v. 1 | year=2001 | isbn=978-1-57607-101-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rpuSzowmIkgC&pg=PA507 |page=507}}</ref>

In 1946, she was elected to the [[Constituent Assembly of India|Constituent Assembly]] from the United Provinces.<ref>Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi (1979). "Interim Government". ''[https://archive.org/details/scopeofhappiness00pand/page/224/mode/2up?view=theater The Scope of Happiness: A Personal Memoir]''. New York: Crown Publishers Inc. pp. 225. {{ISBN|0-517-53688-9}}. Retrieved 12 September 2022.</ref>


Following India's freedom from British occupation in 1947 she entered the diplomatic service and became [[Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union|India's ambassador to the Soviet Union]] from 1947 to 1949,<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 June 1947 |title=India's Ambassador to Moscow: Mrs. V. L. Pandit's choice certain |volume=15 |pages=1 |work=The Indian Express |issue=83 |location=Madras |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ldc-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=WkwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=7115%2C5998923 |access-date=11 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1451141 |title=Appointment of Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as Ambassador for India in USSR and fixation of her pay and allowance |publisher=Department of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations: External Affairs Wing |year=1947 |location=New Delhi |pages=11 |access-date=11 September 2022 |url-access=registration |via=[[National Archives of India]]}}</ref> the United States and Mexico from 1949 to 1951,<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 May 1949 |title=Woman Ambassador |volume=65 |pages=33 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |issue=316 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1T4bAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P00EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2222%2C3493675 |access-date=11 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1451087 |title=Appointment of Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as Ambassador in U.S.A. succession to Shri B.Rama Rau I.C.S. and fixation of her pay and allowances. Grant of Joining time to H.E., Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Ambassador of India in USA. Grant of free air passage to Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her daughter.......... |publisher=Press Information Bureau |year=1949 |location=New Delhi |pages=33 |access-date=11 September 2022 |url-access=registration |via=[[National Archives of India]]}}</ref> Ireland from 1955 to 1961 (during which time she was also the Indian [[High Commissioner]] to the United Kingdom),<ref>{{Cite journal |last=O'Malley |first=Kate |title=Ireland and India: Post-independence Diplomacy |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41413198 |journal=Irish Studies in International Affairs |publisher=Royal Irish Academy |volume=22 |pages=152-153 |access-date=12 September 2022 |via=JSTOR}}</ref> and Spain from 1956 to 1961.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brittain |first=Vera |url=https://archive.org/details/envoyextraordina0000unse/page/134/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Envoy Extraordinary: A Study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her contribution to Modern India |publisher=George Allen & Unwin Ltd. |year=1965 |location=London |pages=135 |chapter=The Conquest of Britain |quote="Spain and India had decided in May 1956 to establish diplomatic relations at Embassy level, and now made her the first woman, and probably the first diplomat, to hold three ambassadorships simultaneously. She visited Madrid to present her credentials on October 30, 1957, and was officially photographed with Spain's fascist dictator General Franco." |author-link=Vera Brittain |access-date=12 September 2022 |url-access=registration}}</ref> Between 1946 and 1968, she headed the Indian delegation to the United Nations. In 1953, she became the first woman [[President of the United Nations General Assembly]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/Pandit,%2BVijaya |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026173659/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/Pandit%2C+Vijaya |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 October 2011 |title=Vijay Lakshmi Pandit |first=online |last=Oxford Dictionaries |access-date=2 July 2012}}</ref> (she was inducted as an honorary member of the [[Alpha Kappa Alpha]] sorority in 1978 for this accomplishment<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aka1908.com/centennial/history/index.html|title=Alpha Kappa Alpha 1978|access-date=14 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226064143/http://www.aka1908.com/centennial/history/index.html|archive-date=26 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>).
Following India's freedom from British occupation in 1947 she entered the diplomatic service and became [[Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union|India's ambassador to the Soviet Union]] from 1947 to 1949,<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 June 1947 |title=India's Ambassador to Moscow: Mrs. V. L. Pandit's choice certain |volume=15 |pages=1 |work=The Indian Express |issue=83 |location=Madras |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ldc-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=WkwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=7115%2C5998923 |access-date=11 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1451141 |title=Appointment of Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as Ambassador for India in USSR and fixation of her pay and allowance |publisher=Department of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations: External Affairs Wing |year=1947 |location=New Delhi |pages=11 |access-date=11 September 2022 |url-access=registration |via=[[National Archives of India]]}}</ref> the United States and Mexico from 1949 to 1951,<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 May 1949 |title=Woman Ambassador |volume=65 |pages=33 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |issue=316 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1T4bAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P00EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2222%2C3493675 |access-date=11 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1451087 |title=Appointment of Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as Ambassador in U.S.A. succession to Shri B.Rama Rau I.C.S. and fixation of her pay and allowances. Grant of Joining time to H.E., Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Ambassador of India in USA. Grant of free air passage to Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her daughter.......... |publisher=Press Information Bureau |year=1949 |location=New Delhi |pages=33 |access-date=11 September 2022 |url-access=registration |via=[[National Archives of India]]}}</ref> Ireland from 1955 to 1961 (during which time she was also the Indian [[High Commissioner]] to the United Kingdom),<ref>{{Cite journal |last=O'Malley |first=Kate |title=Ireland and India: Post-independence Diplomacy |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41413198 |journal=Irish Studies in International Affairs |publisher=Royal Irish Academy |volume=22 |pages=152-153 |access-date=12 September 2022 |via=JSTOR}}</ref> and Spain from 1956 to 1961.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brittain |first=Vera |url=https://archive.org/details/envoyextraordina0000unse/page/134/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Envoy Extraordinary: A Study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her contribution to Modern India |publisher=George Allen & Unwin Ltd. |year=1965 |location=London |pages=135 |chapter=The Conquest of Britain |quote="Spain and India had decided in May 1956 to establish diplomatic relations at Embassy level, and now made her the first woman, and probably the first diplomat, to hold three ambassadorships simultaneously. She visited Madrid to present her credentials on October 30, 1957, and was officially photographed with Spain's fascist dictator General Franco." |author-link=Vera Brittain |access-date=12 September 2022 |url-access=registration}}</ref> Between 1946 and 1968, she headed the Indian delegation to the United Nations. In 1953, she became the first woman [[President of the United Nations General Assembly]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/Pandit,%2BVijaya |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026173659/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/Pandit%2C+Vijaya |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 October 2011 |title=Vijay Lakshmi Pandit |first=online |last=Oxford Dictionaries |access-date=2 July 2012}}</ref> (she was inducted as an honorary member of the [[Alpha Kappa Alpha]] sorority in 1978 for this accomplishment<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aka1908.com/centennial/history/index.html|title=Alpha Kappa Alpha 1978|access-date=14 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226064143/http://www.aka1908.com/centennial/history/index.html|archive-date=26 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>).

Revision as of 17:49, 11 March 2023

Her Excellency
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Pandit in the Netherlands, 1965
8th President of the United Nations General Assembly
In office
15 September 1953 – 21 September 1954[1]
Preceded byLester B. Pearson
Succeeded byEelco N. van Kleffens
6th Governor of Maharashtra
In office
28 November 1962 – 18 October 1964
Chief MinisterMarotrao Kannamwar
P. K. Sawant
Vasantrao Naik
Preceded byP. Subbarayan
Succeeded byP. V. Cherian
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
1967–1971
Preceded byJawaharlal Nehru
Succeeded byV. P. Singh
ConstituencyPhulpur
Personal details
Born
Swarup Nehru

(1900-08-20)20 August 1900
Allahabad, North West Provinces, British India
(present day), Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died1 December 1990(1990-12-01) (aged 90)
Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh, India
(present-day Uttarakhand)
Political partyIndian National Congress
Spouse
​
​
(m. 1921; died 1944)​
Children3, including Nayantara Sahgal
Parent(s)Pandit Motilal Nehru
Swarup Rani Nehru
RelativesSee Nehru–Gandhi family
Signature

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (née Swarup Nehru;[2] 18 August 1900 – 1 December 1990) was an Indian diplomat and politician who was the 6th Governor of Maharashtra from 1962 to 1964 and 8th President of the United Nations General Assembly from 1953 to 1954, the first woman appointed to either post. Hailing from the prominent Nehru-Gandhi political family, her brother Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of independent India, her niece Indira Gandhi the first female Prime Minister of India and her grand-nephew Rajiv Gandhi was the sixth Prime Minister of India. She was sent to London as India's most important diplomat after serving as India's envoy to the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Nations. Her time in London offers insights into the wider context of changes in Indo–British relations.[3]

Early life

Vijaya Lakshmi's (born Swarup)[2] father, Motilal Nehru (1861–1931), a wealthy barrister who belonged to the Kashmiri Pandit community,[4] served twice as President of the Indian National Congress during the Independence Struggle. Her mother, Swaruprani Thussu (1868–1938), who came from a well-known Kashmiri Pandit family settled in Lahore,[5] was Motilal's second wife, the first having died in child birth. She was the second of three children; Jawaharlal was eleven years her senior (b. 1889), while her younger sister Krishna Hutheesing (b. 1907-1967) became a noted writer and authored several books on their brother.

Career

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit in 1938
Pandit as a Chief Guest at The Doon School, Dehradun, in the 1960s.

She attended the 1916 Congress session that took place in Lucknow. She was impressed by Sarojini Naidu and Annie Besant.[6]

In 1920, she spent time in Mahatma Gandhi's ashram close to Ahmedabad. She participated in daily chores including dairy work and spinning. She also worked in the office that used to publish Young India.[6]

Pandit was the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post in pre-independent India. In 1937, she was elected to the provincial legislature of the United Provinces and was designated minister of local self-government and public health.[7][8] She held the latter post until 1938 and again from 1946 to 1947.[9][10]

She spent significant time in jail for her participation in independence movements. She was jailed for 18 months from 1931 - 1933. She was jailed again for 6 months in 1940 before getting jailed in 1942 for 7 months over her participation in Quit India Movement.[11][12]

In 1946, she was elected to the Constituent Assembly from the United Provinces.[13]

Following India's freedom from British occupation in 1947 she entered the diplomatic service and became India's ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1947 to 1949,[14][15] the United States and Mexico from 1949 to 1951,[16][17] Ireland from 1955 to 1961 (during which time she was also the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom),[18] and Spain from 1956 to 1961.[19] Between 1946 and 1968, she headed the Indian delegation to the United Nations. In 1953, she became the first woman President of the United Nations General Assembly[20] (she was inducted as an honorary member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in 1978 for this accomplishment[21]).

Hon. Members that Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit has resigned her seat in the House with effect from 17 December 1954.[22]

In India, she served as Governor of Maharashtra from 1962 to 1964, after which she was elected to the Indian parliament's lower house, Lok Sabha, from Phulpur, her brother's former constituency from 1964 to 1968.[23] Pandit was a harsh critic of Indira Gandhi's years as Prime Minister especially after her niece had declared the emergency.

Pandit retired from active politics after relations between them soured. On retiring, she moved to Dehradun in the Doon Valley in the Himalayan foothills.[24] She came out of retirement in 1977 to campaign against Indira Gandhi and helped the Janata Party win the 1977 election.[25] She was reported to have considered running for the presidency, but Neelam Sanjiva Reddy eventually ran and won the election unopposed.[26]

In 1979, she was appointed the Indian representative to the UN Human Rights Commission, after which she retired from public life. Her writings include The Evolution of India (1958) and The Scope of Happiness: A Personal Memoir (1979).

Personal life

In 1919, she fell in love with Syud Hossain, a Muslim journalist and later first Indian Ambassador to Cairo,[27] but after intervention of Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru family they separated.[28]

In 1921, she was married to Ranjit Sitaram Pandit (1921–1944), a successful barrister from Kathiawar, Gujarat and classical scholar who translated Kalhana's epic history Rajatarangini into English from Sanskrit. Her husband was a Maharashtrian Saraswat Brahmin, whose family hailed from village of Bambuli, on the Ratnagiri coast, in Maharashtra. He was arrested for his support of Indian independence and died in Lucknow prison in 1944, leaving behind his wife and their three daughters Chandralekha Mehta, Nayantara Sehgal and Rita Dar.

She died in the year of 1990. She was survived by her daughters, Chandralekha and Nayantara Sahgal.

Academics

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit along with Indira Gandhi and Nehru visit Albert Einstein

She was the member of Aligarh Muslim University Executive Council.[29]

She was an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, where her niece studied Modern History.[30] A portrait of her by Edward Halliday hangs in the Somerville College Library.[31]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Presidents of the General Assembly | United Nations". Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
  2. ^ a b Nehru, Krishna (1945). With No Regrets: An Autobiography. New York: The John Day Company.
  3. ^ Rakesh Ankit, "Between Vanity and Sensitiveness: Indo–British Relations During Vijayalakshmi Pandit’s High-Commissioner (1954–61)." Contemporary British History 30.1 (2016): 20–39.
  4. ^ Moraes 2008, p. 4.
  5. ^ Zakaria, Rafiq A Study of Nehru, Times of India Press, 1960, p. 22
  6. ^ a b Smith, B.G. (2008). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press. p. 2-PA406. ISBN 978-0-19-514890-9.
  7. ^ Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi (1939). "First Person, Singular". So I became a Minister. Allahabad: Kitabistan. pp. 141–143. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  8. ^ Welcome address from Chairman of Municipal Board, Agra, to Smt. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit honouring her as Minister of Local Self Government and Health, and highlighting the poor civic conditions of Agra (in Hindi). Allahabad: Sainik Press. 1938. Retrieved 12 September 2022 – via Allahabad Museum.
  9. ^ Khan, Abdul Majid (1946). "Lakshmi Resigns". The Great Daughter of India. Lahore: Indian Printing Works. p. 152. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  10. ^ Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi (1979). "Interim Government". The Scope of Happiness: A Personal Memoir. New York: Crown Publishers Inc. pp. 200–201, 203, 204–205. ISBN 0-517-53688-9. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  11. ^ Bhagavan, M. (2013). India and the Quest for One World: The Peacemakers. Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-137-34983-5.
  12. ^ Rappaport, Helen (2001). Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers. Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers. ABC-CLIO. p. 507. ISBN 978-1-57607-101-4.
  13. ^ Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi (1979). "Interim Government". The Scope of Happiness: A Personal Memoir. New York: Crown Publishers Inc. pp. 225. ISBN 0-517-53688-9. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  14. ^ "India's Ambassador to Moscow: Mrs. V. L. Pandit's choice certain". The Indian Express. Vol. 15, no. 83. Madras. 7 June 1947. p. 1. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  15. ^ Appointment of Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as Ambassador for India in USSR and fixation of her pay and allowance. New Delhi: Department of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations: External Affairs Wing. 1947. p. 11. Retrieved 11 September 2022 – via National Archives of India.
  16. ^ "Woman Ambassador". The Pittsburgh Press. Vol. 65, no. 316. 8 May 1949. p. 33. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  17. ^ Appointment of Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as Ambassador in U.S.A. succession to Shri B.Rama Rau I.C.S. and fixation of her pay and allowances. Grant of Joining time to H.E., Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Ambassador of India in USA. Grant of free air passage to Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her daughter.... New Delhi: Press Information Bureau. 1949. p. 33. Retrieved 11 September 2022 – via National Archives of India.
  18. ^ O'Malley, Kate. "Ireland and India: Post-independence Diplomacy". Irish Studies in International Affairs. 22. Royal Irish Academy: 152–153. Retrieved 12 September 2022 – via JSTOR.
  19. ^ Brittain, Vera (1965). "The Conquest of Britain". Envoy Extraordinary: A Study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her contribution to Modern India. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. p. 135. Retrieved 12 September 2022. Spain and India had decided in May 1956 to establish diplomatic relations at Embassy level, and now made her the first woman, and probably the first diplomat, to hold three ambassadorships simultaneously. She visited Madrid to present her credentials on October 30, 1957, and was officially photographed with Spain's fascist dictator General Franco.
  20. ^ Oxford Dictionaries, online. "Vijay Lakshmi Pandit". Archived from the original on 26 October 2011. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  21. ^ "Alpha Kappa Alpha 1978". Archived from the original on 26 December 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  22. ^ Lok Sabha Debates Vol VII, 1954 (PDF). Lok Sabha Secretariat New Delhi. 18 December 1954. p. 12.
  23. ^ Malaviya, Padma Kant. P.K. Malaviya analyses election defeat and congratulates Mrs. Vijay Lakshmi on her victory in Phulpur Lok Sabha election. New Delhi. p. 1. Retrieved 12 September 2022 – via National Archives of India.
  24. ^ Indira Gandhi's Aunt Says She Is 'Profoundly Troubled' at Direction India Is Taking, NY Times, 31 October 1976
  25. ^ Sister Burnishes Nehru's Image, Lest India Forget, NY Times, 22 May 1989
  26. ^ Nehru's Sister Campaigning for Presidency of India, NY Times,
  27. ^ "Embassy of India, Cairo, Egypt : List of former Ambassadors". www.eoicairo.gov.in. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  28. ^ Amid, Shahid; Zieger, P. (1993). Disastrous Twilight: A Personal Record of the Partition of india by Major-General Shahid Hamid. Pen & Sword Books. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-4738-1367-0. Mrs Pandit as a young girl fell in love with a Muslim, Syed Hussain, and wanted to marry him but the Nehru family as well as Gandhi tried their level best to prevent it and finally succeeded.
  29. ^ Batori (10 December 2015). "Nayantara Sahgal delivers 6th K P Singh Memorial Lecture". Batori. Batori.in. Archived from the original on 11 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  30. ^ Visit of Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit former Governor of Maharashtra to London to receive the Honorary Degree of of[sic] D.C.L. from the Oxford University - Payment of air fare from Bombay to London & back. New Delhi: Ministry of External Affairs. 1965. pp. 1–21. Retrieved 11 September 2022 – via National Archives of India.
  31. ^ "Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit". Equality and Diversity Unit, University of Oxford. 11 September 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

Further reading

  • Ankit, Rakesh. "Between Vanity and Sensitiveness: Indo–British Relations During Vijayalakshmi Pandit's High-Commissionership (1954–61)". Contemporary British History 30:1 (2016): 20–39. doi:10.1080/13619462.2015.1049262.
  • Gupta, Indra (2004). India's 50 Most Illustrious Women. New Delhi: Icon Publications. ISBN 81-88086-19-3. OCLC 858639936.

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