Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (née Sarup Kumari Nehru) NPG x104680

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios

Born in Allahabad, India, the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru. Like her brother, she was imprisoned for activism during India's struggle for independence. She became the first woman to hold a cabinet position in pre-Independence India (1937). She was the leader of the All Indian Women's Conference (1941-1943). Widowed after her barrister husband Ranjit Sitaram Pandit died in jail after being arrested for Independence activism. She brought up her children independently because of discriminatory Indian laws dictated that women were not entitled to any inheritance.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.