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1944

Tara and Rita Pandit, New York

Dorothy Norman

American, 1905 - 1997

The Pandit sisters were nieces of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and daughters of his sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, herself a prominent political leader who held the Indian ambassadorship to the United Nations from 1946 to 1968. Today Tara Pandit (Nayantara Sehgal, born 1927) is a well-known novelist.

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