Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

thumb|Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit in 1965. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (18 August 1900 – 1 December 1990) was an Indian diplomat and politician who was the first woman elected to 6th Governor of Maharashtra and 8th President of the United Nations General Assembly. Hailing from a prominent political family, her brother Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of independent India, her niece Indira Gandhi the first female Prime Minister of India and her grand-nephew Rajiv Gandhi was the sixth Prime Minister of India. Quotes In the distant past, in India as in many other countries, all recognized branches of learning had had a religious and philosophic bias. Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation into the life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue. The Evolution of India (1958), p. 19. External links Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Category:1900 births Category:Indian National Congress politicians Category:Diplomats of India Category:Women diplomats Category:Women born in the 1900s Category:Women politicians in India Category:Nehru–Gandhi family Category:Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly