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Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit (विजयलक्ष्मी नेहरू पंडित) (1900 - 1990) was an Indian diplomat and politician, sister of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and the first female President of the United Nations General Assembly.
) Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1935) In 1921 she married Ranjit Sitaram Pandit. She was the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post. In 1937 she was elected to the provincial legislature of the United Provinces and designated minister of local self-government and public health. She held the latter post until 1939 and again from 1946 to 1947. In 1946, she was elected to the Constituent Assembly from the United Provinces. Following India's independence from the British in 1947, she entered the diplomatic service and became India's ambassador to several different countries: the Soviet Union from 1947 to 1949, the United States and Mexico from 1949 to 1951, Ireland from 1955 to 1961 (during which time she was also the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom), and Spain from 1958 to 1961. Between 1946 and 1968 she also headed the Indian delegation to the United Nations. In India, she served as governor of Maharashtra from 1962 until 1964, after which she was elected to the Indian Lok Sabha from Phulpur, her brother's former constituency. She held office from 1964 to 1968. Pandit was a harsh critic of her niece, Indira Gandhi, after Gandhi became Prime Minister in 1966, and she retired from active politics after relations soured between them. Upon retiring, she moved to Dehradun in the Doon Valley in the Himalayan foothills. 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). Her daughter Nayantara Sahgal, who later settled in her mother's house in Dehradun, is a well-known novelist. Further readingIndia’s 50 Most Illustrious Women (ISBN 81-88086-19-3) by Indra Gupta
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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the younger sister of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, grew up in a family steeped in politics and firmly engaged in the struggle for independence. She is the first female to hold such position since 1969, when Angie Elisabeth Brooks of Liberia was appointed to the presidency, and one of only three women to ever serve as Assembly President--the first was Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India in 1953 (see page 6). But only two women have been elected President of the General Assembly: the first, at the eighth session in 1953, was Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India, whose name figured on the short-list for the post of Secretary-General when Trygve Lie resigned in October 1952. |
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