Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi, 1900-1990
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Vijaya Lakshmi's father, Motilal Nehru (1861–1931), a wealthy barrister who belonged to the Kashmiri Pandit community, 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, 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.
In 1921, she was married to Ranjit Sitaram Pandit (1893–1944), 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.
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correspondedWith | Andrews, Robert Hardy, 1908-1999. |
correspondedWith | Bernays, Edward L., 1891-1995. |
associatedWith | Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953. |
associatedWith | Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986. |
correspondedWith | Celler, Emanuel, 1888-1981 |
correspondedWith | Dunaway, Margaret Fowler |
correspondedWith | Fischer, Ruth, 1895- |
associatedWith | Guthrie, Anne. |
correspondedWith | Hocking, William Ernest, 1873-1966 |
associatedWith | Jacobs, Sophia Yarnall, 1902- |
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Birth 1900-08-18
Death 1990-12-01
Female
Indians (India)
English
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