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Author : Verinder Grover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788176290333
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (93 download)
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:
Author : Manu Bhagavan
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9357086463
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (57 download)
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.
Author : M. Bhagavan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137349832
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
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."
Author : Nayantara Sahgal
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0670083577
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)
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.
Author : Manu Bhagavan
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9353056160
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book India and the Cold War written by Manu Bhagavan and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors draw on a wide array of new material, from recently opened archival sources to literature and film, and meld approaches from diplomatic history to development studies to explain the choices India made and to frame the decisions by its policymakers. Together, the essays demonstrate how India became a powerful symbol of decolonization and an advocate of non-alignment, disarmament and global governance as it stood between the United States and the Soviet Union, actively fostering dialogue and attempting to forge friendships without entering into formal alliances. Sweeping in its scope yet nuanced in its analysis, this is the authoritative account of India and the Cold War.
Author : Patricia Owens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108848974
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Women's International Thought: A New History written by Patricia Owens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's International Thought: A New History is the first cross-disciplinary history of women's international thought. Bringing together some of the foremost historians and scholars of international relations working today, this book recovers and analyses the path-breaking work of eighteen leading thinkers of international politics from the early to mid-twentieth century. Recovering and analyzing this important work, the essays offer revisionist accounts of IR's intellectual and disciplinary history and expand the locations, genres, and practices of international thinking. Systematically structured, and focusing in particular on Black diasporic, Anglo-American, and European historical women, it does more than 'add women' to the existing intellectual and disciplinary histories from which they were erased. Instead, it raises fundamental questions about which kinds of subjects and what kind of thinking constitutes international thought, opening new vistas to scholars and students of international history and theory, intellectual history and women's and gender studies.
Author : Verinder Grover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Great Women of Modern India: Vija ya Lakshmi Pandit written by Verinder Grover and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Bhagavan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137349832
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
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 226 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."
Author : Ashley Robertson Preston
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813072808
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist written by Ashley Robertson Preston and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting Bethune’s global activism and her connections throughout the African diaspora This book examines the Pan-Africanism of Mary McLeod Bethune through her work, which internationalized the scope of Black women’s organizations to create solidarity among Africans throughout the diaspora. Broadening the familiar view of Bethune as an advocate for racial and gender equality within the United States, Ashley Preston argues that Bethune consistently sought to unify African descendants around the world with her writings, through travel, and as an advisor. Preston shows how Bethune’s early involvement with Black women’s organizations created personal connections across Cuba, Haiti, India, and Africa and shaped her global vision. Bethune founded and led the National Council of Negro Women, which strengthened coalitions with women across the diaspora to address issues in their local communities. Bethune served as director of the Division of Negro Affairs for the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and later as associate consultant for the United Nations alongside W.E.B. DuBois and Walter White, using her influence to address diversity in the military, decolonization, suffrage, and imperialism. Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist provides a fuller, more accurate understanding of Bethune’s work, illustrating the perspective and activism behind Bethune’s much-quoted words: “For I am my mother’s daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.” Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Author : Anita Goyal
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1838597220
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Voices from Punjab written by Anita Goyal and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen women. Fifteen inspirational stories. From highly influential individuals in politics, to award-winning leaders and inspirational philanthropists, to ordinary women who have embraced British life, a range of Punjabi women all share personal stories of racism, gender inequality and the partition of India and Pakistan.
Author : Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789387693654
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (936 download)
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.
Author : Dan Plesch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134668732
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations written by Dan Plesch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation of the UN system during World War II is a largely unknown or forgotten story among contemporary decision makers, international relations specialists, and policy analysts. This book aims to recover the wartime history of the United Nations and explore how the forgotten past can shed light on a possible and more desirable future. To achieve this, each chapter takes three snapshots: "Then," the imaginative and transnational thinking about solutions to post-war problems demonstrated a realization that victory in WW II required an intergovernmental "system" with enough power and competence to work—that is, the UN was not established as a liberal plaything and public relations ploy but rather as a vital necessity for post-war order and prosperity. "Now," which often seems a pale imitation of wartime thinking that nonetheless reflects a growing and widespread recognition of the fundamental disconnect between the nature of trans-boundary problems and current solutions seen as feasible by 193 UN member states. "Next steps," or the collective wisdom about the range of new thinking and new institutions that, in fact, may well have antecedents in wartime thinking and experimentation and could be labelled blue-prints for a "third generation" of intergovernmental organizations. This work will be essential reading for all students and scholars of the United Nations, International Organizations and Global Governance.
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Total Pages : 558 pages
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Author : S. & Anu Shukla
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176253727
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (537 download)
Download or read book Multiple Contexts And Insights written by S. & Anu Shukla and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bryan Ryan
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Major 20th-century Writers written by Bryan Ryan and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1991 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOL. 1 (A-D) VOL. 2 (E-K) VOL 3. (L-Q) VOL. 4 (R-Z/INDEXES).
Author : Eleanor Amico
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135314039
Total Pages : 1279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Reader's Guide to Women's Studies written by Eleanor Amico and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-03-20 with total page 1279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to Women's Studies is a searching and analytical description of the most prominent and influential works written in the now universal field of women's studies. Some 200 scholars have contributed to the project which adopts a multi-layered approach allowing for comprehensive treatment of its subject matter. Entries range from very broad themes such as "Health: General Works" to entries on specific individuals or more focused topics such as "Doctors."
Author : Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789387693012
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
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.
