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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit , 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 Great Britain (1955-61). From 1962 to 1964 she was governor of Maharashtra.

Bibliography: See her autobiography The Scope of Happiness (1979).

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