Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 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.
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit 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.
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit was the second of three children; Jawaharlal was eleven years her senior, while her younger sister Krishna Hutheesing became a noted writer and authored several books on their brother.
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit's husband was a Maharashtrian Saraswat Brahmin, whose family hailed from village of Bambuli, on the Ratnagiri coast, in Maharashtra.
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit 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.
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit's second daughter Nayantara Sahgal, is a well-known novelist.
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit was married to Gautam Sahgal and had three children - Nonika her eldest daughter, son Ranjit, and her youngest daughter Gita Sahgal.
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit was the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post in pre-independent India.
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit held the latter post until 1938 and again from 1946 to 1947.
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit was a harsh critic of Indira Gandhi's years as Prime Minister especially after her niece had declared the emergency.
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit retired from active politics after relations between them soured.
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit came out of retirement in 1977 to campaign against Indira Gandhi and helped the Janata Party win the 1977 election.
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit was reported to have considered running for the presidency, but Neelam Sanjiva Reddy eventually ran and won the election unopposed.
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit's writings include The Evolution of India and The Scope of Happiness: A Personal Memoir.
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit was the member of Aligarh Muslim University Executive Council.
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