TY - BOOK AU - Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi TI - The scope of happiness : : a personal memoir SN - 9789387693630 U1 - 954.040924 PY - 2018/// CY - New Delhi PB - Speaking Tiger Publications KW - Autobiography KW - History KW - 20th century KW - India KW - Politics and government N2 - The Scope of Happiness is the autobiography of an outstanding world figure who was the sister, confidante, and lifelong political associate of India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru and the aunt of Indira Gandhi. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit participated in the Indian national struggle for freedom from its inception and was imprisoned three times. In this very personal view of the struggle for independence, she gives an evocative picture of the cultured and protected world in which she grew up in Anand Bhavan in Allahabad, conveying even the textures, aromas and sounds of her childhood home. She offers an unprecedented picture of life in India under British rule, with its rigorous restrictions and racial bigotry ER -