{"id":10,"date":"2011-09-17T16:19:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T16:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?p=10"},"modified":"2011-09-17T16:19:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T16:19:17","slug":"american-history-in-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/09\/17\/american-history-in-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900-1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Younger sister of Jawaharlal Nehru<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;unofficial delegate&#8221; at 1945 San\u00a0Francisco\u00a0UN Charter Conference<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;brilliant, silver-tongued orator&#8221; (A. M. Wendell Malliet, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/envoy.dickinson.edu:2048\/login?url=http:\/\/proquest.umi.com\/pqdweb?did=1080665082&amp;sid=6&amp;Fmt=10&amp;clientId=4534&amp;RQT=309&amp;VName=HNP\" target=\"_blank\">Little Nations Deal Blow to Ambition of Gen. Smuts<\/a>,&#8221; <em>New York Amsterdam News<\/em>, December 14, 1946, pg. 1<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4\">Ambassador to the United States, 1949 (previously, Ambassador to USSR)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>President of the UN General Assembly, 1953<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Online reference source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pandit, Dictionary of National Biography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/view\/article\/47741\u00a0\" target=\"_blank\">Dictionary of National Biography, Pandit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biographies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andrews, Robert Hardy. <em>A Lamp for India: The Story of Madame Pandit <\/em>(1967).<\/p>\n<p>Grover, Verinder and Ranjana Arora, ed.\u00a0<em>Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit<\/em>. Vol. 4,\u00a0<em>Great Women of Modern India. <\/em>New Delhi: Deep &amp; Deep Publications, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Guthrie, Anne. <em>Madame Ambassador; The Life of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. <\/em>New York: Harcourt, Brace &amp; World, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Jensen, Irene Khin Khin. &#8220;The Men Behind the Women: A Case Study of the Political Career of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit,&#8221; in <em>Contributions to Asian Studies<\/em>, Vol. 10, 1997, 76-93.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Primary Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Papers<\/em>: Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi; British Film Institute, National Archive<\/p>\n<p><em>The Scope of Happiness: A Personal Memoir<\/em>. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Nehru, Jawaharlal, <em>Before Freedom<\/em> (2000) [letters to Vijayalakshmi]<\/p>\n<p>American History in Video:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ahiv.alexanderstreet.com\/View\/850461\/clip\/15553\" target=\"_blank\">1955, India used to look to America as a beacon of freedom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ahiv.alexanderstreet.com\/View\/528132\" target=\"_blank\">1953, Interview on Longines Chronoscope<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1b8be0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ahiv.alexanderstreet.com\/View\/870119\/clip\/15554\" target=\"_blank\">1951, Truman signs grain bill for India<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Younger sister of Jawaharlal Nehru &#8220;unofficial delegate&#8221; at 1945 San\u00a0Francisco\u00a0UN Charter Conference &#8220;brilliant, silver-tongued orator&#8221; (A. M. Wendell Malliet, &#8220;Little Nations Deal Blow to Ambition of Gen. Smuts,&#8221; New York Amsterdam News, December 14, 1946, pg. 1 Ambassador to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/09\/17\/american-history-in-video\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39553,41103],"tags":[39560],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","category-diplomats","tag-pandit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}