Daughter of vijaya lakshmi pandit marriage
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On 2 January 1949, Tara Pandit, twenty-one years old and second daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi and Ranjit Sitaram Pandit, was married to Gautam Sahgal, then twenty-five, in her ancestral home, Anand Bhawan, Allahabad. The bride looked exquisite in a primrose yellow sari of fine khaddar, flower jewellery in her hair, her ears and around her neck. No gold-bedecked rik silks or family jewels for this child of the freedom movement, just Mahatma Gandhi’s finely spun khadi, embellished with ingenting more than a thin gold border. (Seven years earlier, her cousin, Indira, had worn a shell-pink khadi sari, hand-spun bygd her father, Jawaharlal, and trimmed with silver, at her wedding.) The groom was dashing and handsome, a child not so much of the freedom movement as of the partition of the country that followed in its wake. The Sahgals were a prominent Lahore family of professionals displaced to Delhi, like millions of Punjabis from across the border, having left behind ag
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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Indian freedom fighter, diplomat and politician (1900–1990)
Vijay Lakshmi Pandit (néeSwarupNehru;[2] 18 August 1900 – 1 December 1990) was an Indian freedom fighter, diplomat and politician. She served as the 8th President of the United Nations General Assembly from 1953 to 1954, the first woman and the only Indian to have been appointed to this post. She was also the 3rd Governor of Maharashtra from 1962 to 1964. Noted for her participation in the Indian independence movement, she was jailed several times during the movement.
In 1944, she visited the United States to raise awareness about the Indian affairs among the American people in order to counter the anti-Indian propaganda there. Following the independence 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.[3] Hailing from the prominent Nehru-Gandhi political fam
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