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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (18 August 1900 – 1 December 1990) was an Indian diplomat and politician, the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, the aunt of Indira Gandhi and the grand-aunt of Rajiv Gandhi, each of whom served as Prime Minister of India. [1]

58 relations: Aligarh Muslim University, Allahabad, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Asaf Ali, B. G. Kher, Constituent Assembly of India, Dehradun, Diplomat, Doon Valley, Eelco van Kleffens, Excellency, Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta, Gita Sahgal, High commissioner, Human rights activists, India, India House, London, Indian independence movement, Indian National Congress, Indira Gandhi, Janata Dal, Jawaharlal Nehru, Kalhana, Kashmiri Pandit, Kathiawar, Krishna Hutheesing, Lahore, Lester B. Pearson, List of ambassadors of India to Russia, List of ambassadors of India to the United States, List of governors of Maharashtra, List of political families, List of Presidents of the Indian National Congress, Lok Sabha, M. C. Chagla, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Motilal Nehru, Nayantara Sahgal, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Netherlands, North-Western Provinces, P. Subbarayan, P. V. Cherian, Phulpur (Lok Sabha constituency), Phulpur, Allahabad, Politician, Presidencies and provinces of British India, President of the United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister of India, Rajatarangini, ..., Rajiv Gandhi, Sanskrit, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, The Emergency (India), United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Provinces (1937–50), Uttar Pradesh, V. P. Singh. Expand index (8 more) »

Aligarh Muslim University

Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is an Indian public central university.

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Allahabad

Prayag, or Allahabad is a large metropolitan city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of Allahabad District, the most populous district in the state and 13th most populous district in India, and the Allahabad Division.

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Alpha Kappa Alpha

Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ) is a Greek-lettered sorority, the first established by African-American college women.

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Asaf Ali

Asaf Ali (11 May 1888 – 1 April 1953) was an Indian independence fighter and noted Indian lawyer.

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B. G. Kher

Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher (also known as B. G. Kher) (24 August 1888 – 8 March 1957) was the first chief minister (then called Premier) of Bombay State which consisted of present-day Maharashtra and Gujarat States of India.

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Constituent Assembly of India

An idea for a Constituent Assembly of India was proposed in 1934 by M. N. Roy, a pioneer of the Communist movement in India and an advocate of radical democracy.

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Dehradun

Dehradun or Dehra Dun is the interim capital city of Uttarakhand, a state in the northern part of India.

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Diplomat

A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organizations.

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Doon Valley

The Doon Valley is an unusually wide, long valley within the Shivalik Hills in the Lesser Himalayas, in the states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana India.

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Eelco van Kleffens

Eelco Nicolaas van Kleffens (17 November 1894 in Heerenveen – 17 June 1983 in Almoçageme, Portugal) was a politician and diplomat of the Netherlands.

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Excellency

Excellency is an honorific style given to certain high-level officers of a sovereign state, officials of an international organization, or members of an aristocracy.

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Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta

Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta (1900–1974) was the ambassador of India to the United States from 1952 to 1958.

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Gita Sahgal

Gita Sahgal (Nastaleeq)), born in Bombay, India, is a writer and journalist on issues of feminism, fundamentalism, and racism, a documentary films director, and a women's rights and human rights activist.

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High commissioner

High commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment.

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Human rights activists

Human rights defenders or human rights activists are people who, individually or with others, act to promote or protect human rights.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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India House, London

The High Commission of India in London is the diplomatic mission of India in the United Kingdom.

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Indian independence movement

The Indian independence movement encompassed activities and ideas aiming to end the East India Company rule (1757–1857) and the British Indian Empire (1857–1947) in the Indian subcontinent.

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Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress (INC, often called Congress Party) is a broadly based political party in India.

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Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (née Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician, stateswoman and a central figure of the Indian National Congress.

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Janata Dal

Janata Dal was an Indian political party which was formed through the merger of Janata Party factions, the Lok Dal, Indian National Congress (Jagjivan), and the Jan Morcha united on 11 October 1988 on the birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Narayan under the leadership of V. P. Singh.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence.

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Kalhana

Kalhana (sometimes spelled Kalhan or Kalhan'a) (c. 12th century), a Kashmiri, was the author of Rajatarangini (River of Kings), an account of the history of Kashmir.

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Kashmiri Pandit

The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) are a Saraswat Brahmin community from the Kashmir Valley, a mountainous region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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Kathiawar

Kathiawar (also written Kathiawad or Kattywar) is a peninsula in western India and part of the Saurashtra region.

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Krishna Hutheesing

Krishna Nehru Hutheesing (1907–1967) was an Indian writer, the youngest sister of Jawaharlal Nehru and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and part of the Nehru-Gandhi family.

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Lahore

Lahore (لاہور, لہور) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Punjab, and is the country’s second-most populous city after Karachi.

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Lester B. Pearson

Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian scholar, statesman, soldier, prime minister, and diplomat, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis.

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List of ambassadors of India to Russia

The following people have served as Ambassadors of India to Russia and its predecessor state, the Soviet Union.

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List of ambassadors of India to the United States

The Indian Ambassador to the United States is the chief diplomatic representative of India to the United States, housed in Embassy of India, Washington, D.C..

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List of governors of Maharashtra

The Governor of Maharashtra is the Executive Head of the State of Maharashtra.

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List of political families

This is a partial listing of prominent political families.

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List of Presidents of the Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress (INC) is one of the two major parties in the political system of Republic of India.

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Lok Sabha

The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha.

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M. C. Chagla

Mahommedali Currim Chagla (30 September 1900 – 9 February 1981) was an Indian jurist, diplomat, and Cabinet Minister who served as Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court from 1947 to 1958.

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Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha

A Member of Parliament of Lok Sabha (सांसद, लोक सभा) (abbreviated: MP) is the representative of the Indian people in the Lok Sabha; the lower house of the Parliament of India.

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Motilal Nehru

Motilal Nehru (6 May 1861 – 6 February 1931) was an Indian lawyer, an activist of the Indian Independence Movement and an important leader of the Indian National Congress, who also served as the Congress President twice, 1919–1920 and 1928–1929.

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Nayantara Sahgal

Nayantara Sahgal (born 10 May 1927) is an Indian writer who writes in English.

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Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (19 May 1913 – 1 June 1996) was the sixth President of India, serving from 1977 to 1982.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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North-Western Provinces

The North-Western Provinces was an administrative region in British India.

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P. Subbarayan

Paramasivan Subbarayan (11 September 1889 – 6 October 1962) was an Indian politician, freedom fighter and diplomat and was the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency, India's ambassador to Indonesia and Union Minister of Transport and Communications in Jawaharlal Nehru's government.

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P. V. Cherian

Palathnikal Varkey Cherian (or Cheriyan) (9 July 1893 – 9 November 1969) was a physician, surgeon and politician from India.

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Phulpur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Phulpur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.

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Phulpur, Allahabad

Phulpur is a town area in Allahabad district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Politician

A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of British India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent.

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President of the United Nations General Assembly

The President of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted for by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis.

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Prime Minister of India

The Prime Minister of India is the leader of the executive of the Government of India.

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Rajatarangini

Rajatarangini ("The River of Kings") is a metrical legendary and historical chronicle of the north-western Indian subcontinent, particularly the kings of Kashmir.

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Rajiv Gandhi

Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the 6th Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Dr.

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The Emergency (India)

In India, "the Emergency" refers to a 21-month period from 1975 to 1977 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had a state of emergency declared across the country.

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United Nations Commission on Human Rights

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) was a functional commission within the overall framework of the United Nations from 1946 until it was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006.

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United Provinces (1937–50)

The United Provinces (UP) was a province of British India and, subsequently, Independent India.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh (IAST: Uttar Pradeś) is a state in northern India.

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V. P. Singh

Vishwanath Pratap Singh (25 June 1931 – 27 November 2008), was an Indian politician and government official, the 7th Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijaya_Lakshmi_Pandit

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