Vijay Lakshmi Pandit :Great Daughter of India
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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was a stateswomen par excellence. She was a symbol not only of Resurgent India but also of emancipated and liberated Indian womanhood. No single person can be said to have raised the image of the Indian woman abroad to a level unmatched till today as she. She was not only the first women to head the Indian delegation to the United Nations, she was also the first woman and the first Asian to become the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation and the first Indian Woman to hold the three most high ranking ambassadorial assignments- to the Soviet Union, the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
This book is a collection of her speeches and writings; most of them made during her statesmanship. They are ideal study material for all women aspiring to the high level of achievement she attained and also of interest to those keen on the development and emancipation of women in independent India. Students and teachers of history will find it useful to gain a wide perspective of her role in the international arena while the general reader will surely be instilled with a sense of national pride at going through the utterances of a woman who played a leading role in ‘internationalising’ a newly independent nation like India.
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| Author | Raj Kumar, Rameshwari Devi, Romila Pruthi |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN | 81-7132-270-0 |
| Language | English |
| Number Of Pages | viii+298 |
| Publication Year | 2011 |
| Publisher | Pointer Publishers, Jaipur |