File:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.jpg

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English: Vijayalakshmi Pandit (née Sarup Kumari Nehru), first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post in 1937 she was elected to the provincial legislature of the United Provinces (1937-1950) and was designated minister of local self-government and public health.
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Source National Portrait Gallery [1]
Author Bassano

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Vijaylaxmi Pandit

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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

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inception

September 1938

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