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The Scope of Happiness

Author : Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789387693654
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Scope of Happiness written by Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scope of Happiness is the autobiography of an outstanding world figure who was the sister, confidante, and lifelong political associate of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru and the aunt of Indira Gandhi. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit participated in the Indian national struggle for freedom from its inception and was imprisoned three times. In this very personal view of the struggle for independence, she gives an evocative picture of the cultured and protected world in which she grew up in Anand Bhavan in Allahabad, conveying even the textures, aromas and sounds of her childhood home. She offers an unprecedented picture of life in India under British rule, with its rigorous restrictions and racial bigotry. A compelling strength of this book is the intimate picture the author draws of many great figures: the searching and affectionate view of her brother, the insight into her niece Indira, a personal record of Mahatma Gandhi that no one else could give--and penetrating and entertaining anecdotes of world figures such as Krishna Menon, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Chester Bowles, Dag Hammarskjold, Eleanor Roosevelt, President Tito and Prince Charles. No other living individual could draw the sweeping historical picture that Mrs Pandit has given us in her memoir, making it a book of rare significance that will speak lastingly for generations to come.

Envoy Extraordinary

Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000329658
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Envoy Extraordinary written by Vera Brittain and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1965, Envoy Extraordinary is a detailed biographical study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her contribution to India. Drawing on a wealth of interviews, press-cuttings, speeches, letters, and more, the book delves into Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’s political and diplomatic career and explores her personal values and ideals. It adopts an objective and truthful approach that does not steer away from the more difficult or disconcerting aspects of Pandit’s private and public life. In doing so, it provides a thorough study of her career and a detailed insight into India’s political history.

A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo

Author : N.S. Vinodh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 8194752094
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo written by N.S. Vinodh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amongst the multitude of tombs in the City of the Dead in Cairo, there lies buried a lone Indian — a scholar, writer, debonair statesman and a leader of the freedom movement. Who is he? How did he get there? For a man who used both the lectern and the pen to devastating effect during the Indian Independence movement led by the likes of Gandhi and Nehru, little is known of Syud Hossain. Born to an aristocratic family in Calcutta, he forayed into journalism early in life and became the editor of Motilal Nehru’s nationalist newspaper, The Independent. After a brief elopement with Motilal’s daughter, Sarup (aka Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit), Hossain, under immense pressure from Nehru and Gandhi, annulled the marriage and stayed away from the country. Thus began several years of exile. Eventually, he landed in the United States. Flitting from one place to another, making homes of hotel rooms, he imparted Gandhi’s message across the country. He fought for India’s cause from afar, garnering support in the United States and decrying British oppression. Syud Hossain inspired and irked in equal measure; with every speech he delivered and every editorial he penned, he sent a shiver down the spine of the colonial ruler. In addition, Hossain took on the fight for Indian immigrant rights in the United States, one that successfully culminated in President Truman signing the Luce-Celler Bill into an Act in 1946. Hossain returned to India to witness the triumph of her independence as well as the tragedy of Gandhi’s assassination. Thereafter appointed India’s first ambassador to Egypt, he died while in service and was laid to rest in Cairo. A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo offers an illuminating narrative of Hossain’s life interspersed with historical details that landscapes a vivid political picture of that era. Through primary sources that include Hossain’s private papers, British Intelligence files, and contemporary correspondence and newspapers, N.S. Vinodh brilliantly brings to life a man who has been relegated far too long to the shadows of time.

Prison Days

Author : Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789387693012
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Prison Days written by Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The author of this absorbing book was, where India is concerned, truly present at the Creation...I urge her book on everyone who lived in those great years and on all those who want to know more about them.' --John Kenneth Galbraith When Mahatma Gandhi gave the call for the nation to join in the freedom struggle, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit threw herself wholeheartedly into the Movement, along with her father, Motilal Nehru, brother Jawaharlal, and husband, Ranjit Sitaram Pandit. Prison Days is an account of her third and final term in Naini Central Jail in Allahabad. She was arrested on 12 August 1942. World War II was on, the country was under military rule and arrest and imprisonment took place without trial. Several lorries filled with armed policemen arrived that night at Anand Bhawan to arrest one lone, unarmed woman. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was soon joined in jail by her 25-year-old niece, Indira Gandhi. In this diary, Pandit recounts her experiences in jail and the hardships she endured along with others who had joined the fight for freedom: rations mixed with dirt and stones, a lack of water and sanitary facilities, surviving on an allowance of 9 annas a day, and only the hard ground to sleep on. Though it is more the personal, day-to-day details of her life that fill Pandit's jail diary, it is the politics of the day--the overarching desire to throw off the shackles of British rule and Mahatma Gandhi's unique approach of non-violence and non-cooperation to achieve this, that define the book. It is this that gives Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her fellow prisoners the courage to carry on the fight with unbroken spirits--and at the stroke of the midnight hour on 15 August 1947, victory was theirs. India was reborn as an independent nation.

India and the Quest for One World

Author : M. Bhagavan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137349832
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book India and the Quest for One World written by M. Bhagavan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India and the Quest for One World revolutionizes the history of human rights, with dramatic impact on some of the most contentious debates of our time, by capturing the exceptional efforts of Mahatma Gandhi and the Nehrus to counter the divisions of the Cold War with an uplifting new vision of justice built on the principle of "unity in diversity."

The Evolution of India, By Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Author : Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of India, By Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit written by Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Author : Manu Bhagavan
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9357086463
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit written by Manu Bhagavan and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, ‘the most remarkable woman’ Eleanor Roosevelt had ever met, was a pioneering politician and diplomat celebrated internationally for her brilliance, charm and glamour. Marlon Brando called her the woman he admired most in the world, while ordinary American men gave up watching football to come hear her speak. Pandit’s life straddled the twentieth century, her own story intertwined with that of the modern world. She was India’s first woman cabinet minister, first ambassador to the United Nations and first ambassador to the Soviet Union. She was also the first woman elected President of the U.N. General Assembly. And yet her influence extended well beyond these formal roles. She grew to be one of the most influential international voices of peace while also paving the way for women across the world in many fields. Madame Pandit, as she was widely known, moved easily in global aristocratic circles, even as she worked tirelessly to improve the lives of suffering millions. She traded barbs and quips with Winston Churchill, out-debated Jan Smuts and garnered more attention than James Cagney. She was arrested for the attempted assassination of Benito Mussolini and later told John F. Kennedy not to go to Dallas. At the end of her career, she came out of retirement to battle her own niece, Indira Gandhi, in an epic clash of democracy vs. authoritarianism. Based on eight years of research and using material in five languages from seven countries and over forty archives, Manu Bhagavan has written the definitive biography of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.

Ida Kar

Author : Clare Freestone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781855144224
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Ida Kar written by Clare Freestone and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 at the National Portrait Gallery, London from 10 March to 19 June 2011-- Verso t.p.

The Evolution of India

Author : Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Publisher : London ; New York ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of India written by Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and published by London ; New York ; Toronto : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit : A Biography of Her Vision and Ideas

Author : Verinder Grover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788176290333
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit : A Biography of Her Vision and Ideas written by Verinder Grover and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Great Women Of India

Author : Nimeran Sahukar
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 8120791487
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Great Women Of India written by Nimeran Sahukar and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presented here are some intriguing life stories of outstanding women who have brought about commendable changes by their determination and their will power. In this series, you will find people as different as politicians, reformers, revolutionaries and artists – women whose lives have left an indelible imprint on our world. Table of Content.. 01. The Formative Years 02. A New Home for Annie 03. Finding her Soulmate 04. Loosing Faith in God 05. Changing Priorities 06. Summons from the Court 07. Setting Sail for India 08. Fighting for a Cause 09. Reaching out to People 10. Social Activities 11. The Retreat"

Jawaharlal Nehru

Author : Nayantara Sahgal
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0670083577
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Jawaharlal Nehru written by Nayantara Sahgal and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book : - Written by Nayantara Sahgal, prize-winning novelist and political commentator, Jawaharlal Nehru presents an intimate view of the influences, encounters and defining historical moments that forged the vision of India s first prime minister. Drawing from the Nehru and the Vijayalakshmi Pandit Papers, and from Nehru s letters to Sahgal, his niece, this book combines history with personal recollections to show how Nehru helped navigate India s transition from a colony to an influential, modern nation. Discussing the significant issue of independent India s foreign policy characterized by the non-alignment principle and the establishment of relations with the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and China Sahgal reveals much about Nehru s political astuteness, realism and aversion to rigid economic doctrines, as well as the profound impact India s non-aligned policy had on the world of the time. Perceptive, original and stimulating, Jawaharlal Nehru draws much-needed attention back to the man and his unmatched ability to engineer a consensus among seemingly irreconcilable sides. About the Author : - Nayantara Sahgal is the author of nine novels, five non-fiction works and wide-ranging literary and political commentary. She has received the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Sinclair Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Eurasia. She is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has held fellowships in the United States at the Bunting Institute, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the National Humanities Center. A resident of Dehradun, she has been awarded the Doon Ratna, and has also received the Distinguished Alumna Award from Wellesley College, Massachusetts, in 2003 and from Woodstock School, Mussoorie, in 2004.

Before Freedom, 1909-1947

Author : Jawaharlal Nehru
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788174363473
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Before Freedom, 1909-1947 written by Jawaharlal Nehru and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features correspondence between Nehru and his sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and includes various letters and family photographs. This book offers insights into Nehru's personal thoughts and life.

100 Pioneering Women

Author : NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781855147461
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book 100 Pioneering Women written by NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 Pioneering Women presents a selection of images of remarkable women , who have defied the expectations of their gender and made extraordinary contributions to British life over the past four centuries. An introduction from the Gallery's Senior Curator of Eighteenth Century Collections consider s the representation of women in the Collection and the efforts being made to redress historical imbalances through the acquisition of portraits of notable women from the last four centuries . Extended captions provide context about ea ch sitter's life and work and remind us of the impact of women in spheres as diverse as politics, science and medicine, the arts, engineering and law. This book features some of the National Portrait Gallery's most famous sitters - Elizabeth I, writer and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft, scientist Dorothy Hodgkin and architect and businesswoman Zaha Hadid - as well as paintings and photographs of lesser - known women whose influence is equally significant. A recently acquired portrait of anti - FGM campaigner an d psychotherapist Leyla Hussein, a bromide cabinet card of Helena Normanton, the first woman to prac tise as a barrister in England, and a self - portrait by Angelica Kauffmann, one of the founding member s of the Royal Academy , are also included in this highly illustrated publication .

Women and the Indian Freedom Struggle: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Author : Rameshwari Devi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Indian Freedom Struggle: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit written by Rameshwari Devi and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Author : Anne Guthrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit written by Anne Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prison and Chocolate Cake

Author : Nayantara Sahgal
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9350299755
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Prison and Chocolate Cake written by Nayantara Sahgal and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Seldom does one get a chance to become acquainted with India's great leaders through a young woman so intimately associated with them.'-New York Times Book ReviewA dramatic portrait of the spirit of sacrifice that carried India through the years of the struggle for independence, this evocative memoir of an unusual childhood ends with the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.Nayantara Sahgal describes what it was like growing up in Anand Bhavan, Allahabad, the home of her parents shared with her maternal uncle, Jawarlal Nehru, during the years when Gandhi was leading the movement for independence. It describes in loving detail the lives of a family for whom the country's fight for freedom was more important than anything else, certainly coming before comfort and riches.The book is particularly delightful for its picture of Nehru who springs from these pages as a man of friendly humanity and a joy in life that made him a beloved uncle, yet with an inborn greatness that inspired awe and admiration in the little girl who played with him.'She is brilliant...complex and questioning.' - Pearl S. Buck