PANDIT, VIJAYA LAKSHMI

vĭjīˈə läkˈshmē pŭnˈdĭt, 1900–1990, Indian diplomat, sister of Jawaharlal Nehru. She played an active role in the Indian National Congress before Indian independence and was several times imprisoned. She was leader of the Indian delegation to the United Nations (1946–51), ambassador to the Soviet Union (1947–49) and to the United States (1949–51), president of the UN General Assembly (1953–54), and India's high commissioner to the United Kingdom (1955–61). From 1962 to 1964 she was governor of Maharashtra.

See her autobiography The Scope of Happiness (1979).

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Prison and Chocolate Cake
Book by Nayantara Sahgal; Knopf, 1954
Subjects: India--Social Life And Customs, United States--Description And Travel
...Maharashtra, the, 32 Malaviya, Pandit Madan Mohan, 38 Manuilsky, Dimitri...Sarup Kumari, see Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru, Swarup Rani, 43 -2...Sitaram, 19 , 33 -4 Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi, ix , xiv , 3 , 13 , 21 -6...
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A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography on Mahatma Gandhi - Vol. 1
Book by Ananda M. Pandiri; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Gandhi--Mahatma--1869-1948--Bibliography
...Page, Kirby, 687, 1894 Pakvasa, M. M., 688 Pal, R. R., 1163 Pal, Trilok Chand, 816 Pandit, Raghunath Vishnu, 689 Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi, 928 Panikar, K. M., 29 , 800 Panjab University, Chandigarh, 2043 Pant, Apa, 690 Pant...
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Cross Currents in the International Women's Movement, 1848-1948
Book by Patricia Ward D'Itri; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999
Subjects: Feminism--International Cooperation--History, Women's Rights--International Cooperation--History, Women--Societies And Clubs--History
Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi. The Scope of Happiness: A Personal Memoir . New York: Crown, 1979. Pankhurst, E. Sylvia. The Suffragette Movement: An...
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Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr
Book by Hollinger F. Barnard, Virginia Foster Durr; University of Alabama Press, 1990
Subjects: African Americans--Civil Rights--Alabama--History--20th Century, African Americans--Civil Rights--History--20th Century, Civil Rights Workers--United States--Biography, Durr, Clifford, Durr, Virginia Foster, New Deal, 1933-1939
...54 , 55 Orr, Cyrus, 21 Orr, Mrs. Cyrus, 21 Oxford University, 139 -40, 142 , 213 Panama Canal, 261 Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi, 136 Parent-Teacher Association PTA , 176 -77 Paris, France, 48 , 197 Parks, Mr. Rosa Parkss husband...
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Jussi
Book by Anna-Lisa Björling, Andrew Farkas; Amadeus Press, 1996
Subjects: Tenors (Singers)--Biography
...320 Palmgren-Lundquist, Magnhild, 39 Palson-Wettergren, Gertrud, 66 , 73 , 120 -121, 152 , 321 , 333 Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi, 246 Panizza, Ettore, 341 Papi, Gennaro, 341 Pardoll, David, 246 Patterson, Floyd, 316 Patti, Adelina...
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journal articles on: Pandit Vijaya Lakshmi  - 2 results

 
 
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Women and International Relations: Pearl S. Buck's Critique of the Cold War
Journal article by Robert Shaffer; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 11, 1999
Subjects: Women--History
...first United Nations ambassador, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehrus...Buck noted the deep disappointment Pandit suffered when the United States...Indians in South Africa. When Pandit became ambassador to the Soviet...
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The End of Empires: African Americans and India
Journal article by Murali Balaji; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 95, 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The End of Empires: African Americans and India (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Mary Church Terrell, Max Yergan, and Channing Tobias, as well as their Indian counterparts Jawaharlal Nehru, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and Kumar Goshal, Horne describes the deep sense of "shared destiny" among leaders of the civil rights struggle...


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magazine articles on: Pandit Vijaya Lakshmi  - 4 results

 
 
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Women Presidents of the General Assembly: An Uneven Past
Magazine article by Avy Mallik; UN Chronicle, Vol. 43, September 2006
Subjects: United Nations. General Assembly--Demographic aspects, United Nations. General Assembly--Officials and employees, Women diplomats--Forecasts and trends
...The other two--Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India, who presided...world". (1) Mrs. Pandit was not afraid to place...by Smuts prestige, Vijaya Lakshmi championed the Indian...appointment of Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit". Hailing from a...
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Letters
Magazine article; The New Crisis, Vol. 105, July 1998
...by its reportage. Of the 49 presidents of the United Nations General Assembly, two were women. These two were Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India in 1953, who served as president of the eighth session; and Angie Brooks, of Liberia in 1969, president...
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Diplomacy: Too Important to Be Left to Men?
Magazine article by Akmaral Arystanbekova; UN Chronicle, Vol. 39, September 2002
Subjects: United Nations--Demographic aspects, Women diplomats--Personal narratives
...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...
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The Chronicle Interview
Magazine article by Horst Rutsch, Pureterrah Witcher, Amy Pont; UN Chronicle, Vol. 43, September 2006
Subjects: Khalifa, Sheikha Haya Rashed Al--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Khalifa, Sheikha Haya Rashed Al--Interviews, United Nations. General Assembly--Officials and employees, Women diplomats--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Women diplomats--Interviews
...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). ILLUSTRATION OMITTED The new President has had a long and illustrious career...


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newspaper articles on: Pandit Vijaya Lakshmi  - 1 result

 
 
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A History of Heroines; FEMALES WHO WERE THERE FIRST
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), March 8, 2007
...first woman in the Cabinet. 1932 PILOT Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. 1953 VIJAYA Lakshmi Pandit is named the first female president of the UN General Assembly. While Lita Rosa is the first woman to get a UK...


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encyclopedia articles on: Pandit Vijaya Lakshmi  - 1 result

 
 
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Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PANDIT, VIJAYA LAKSHMI viji lak shme pun dit, 1900 1990, Indian diplomat, sister of Jawaharlal Nehru . She played an active role in the Indian National...


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