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3 unusual facts about Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit


Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

In India, she served as governor of Maharashtra from 1962 to 1964, after which she was elected to the Indian Lok Sabha from Phulpur, her brother's former constituency from 1964 to 1968.

Gita Sahgal, the writer and journalist on issues of feminism, fundamentalism, and racism, director of prize-winning documentary films, and human rights activist,is her granddaughter.

Her daughter Nayantara Sahgal, who later settled in her mother's house in Dehradun, is a well-known novelist.



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