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| birth_date = 1893 | | birth_date = 1893 | ||
| birth_place = [[Rajkot]], British India | | birth_place = [[Rajkot]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]] | ||
| death_date = 14 January 1944 (aged 50) | | death_date = 14 January 1944<br>(aged 50-51) | ||
| death_place = | | death_place = [[Lucknow]], [[United Provinces (1937-50)|United Provinces]], [[British India]] | ||
| nationality = Indian | | nationality = Indian | ||
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| spouse = [[Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit]] | | spouse = [[Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit]] | ||
| partner = | | partner = | ||
| children = 3 including [[Nayantara Sahgal]] | | children = 3, including [[Nayantara Sahgal]] | ||
| parents = | | parents = | ||
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[[File:Nehru-Gandhi family group photo.jpg|thumb|Nehru-Gandhi family group photo. R. S. Pandit is standing at the far right.<ref name=NehruMemorial>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nehrumemorial.nic.in/en/galleries/photo-gallery/category/40-jawaharlal-nehru-with-family-members.html|title=Photo Gallery - Jawaharlal Nehru with family members|website=www.nehrumemorial.nic.in|access-date=25 December 2019}}</ref>]] | [[File:Nehru-Gandhi family group photo.jpg|thumb|Nehru-Gandhi family group photo. R. S. Pandit is standing at the far right.<ref name=NehruMemorial>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nehrumemorial.nic.in/en/galleries/photo-gallery/category/40-jawaharlal-nehru-with-family-members.html|title=Photo Gallery - Jawaharlal Nehru with family members|website=www.nehrumemorial.nic.in|access-date=25 December 2019}}</ref>]] | ||
[[File:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.jpg|thumb|Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw52170/Vijaya-Lakshmi-Pandit-ne-Sarup-Kumari-Nehru|title=Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (née Sarup Kumari Nehru) - National Portrait Gallery|website=www.npg.org.uk|language=en|access-date=4 January 2020}}</ref>|alt=|243x243px]] | [[File:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.jpg|thumb|Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw52170/Vijaya-Lakshmi-Pandit-ne-Sarup-Kumari-Nehru|title=Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (née Sarup Kumari Nehru) - National Portrait Gallery|website=www.npg.org.uk|language=en|access-date=4 January 2020}}</ref>|alt=|243x243px]] | ||
On 1 March 1926, Pandit, together with his wife Vijaya Lakshmi, his brother-in-law [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], sister-in-law [[Kamala Nehru]] and niece [[Indira Gandhi|Indira]], sailed to Europe on the Lloyd liner ''[[Italia Marittima|Triestino]]''.<ref name="Frank2010">{{cite book|author=Frank, Katherine.|title=Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3bt5jZv2DHsC&pg=PA32|year=2010|publisher=[[HarperCollins Publishers]]|location=London|isbn=978-0-00-638715-2|page=32|chapter=2. 'Hua'|author-link=Katherine Frank}}</ref> He returned with Vijaya Lakshmi the following November.<ref name=BeforeFreedomp.30-31>Sahgal, 2004, pp. 30-31.</ref><ref name=Nehru1936>Nehru, Jawaharlal. (1936). [ | On 1 March 1926, Pandit, together with his wife Vijaya Lakshmi, his brother-in-law [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], sister-in-law [[Kamala Nehru]] and niece [[Indira Gandhi|Indira]], sailed to Europe on the Lloyd liner ''[[Italia Marittima|Triestino]]''.<ref name="Frank2010">{{cite book|author=Frank, Katherine.|title=Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3bt5jZv2DHsC&pg=PA32|year=2010|publisher=[[HarperCollins Publishers]]|location=London|isbn=978-0-00-638715-2|page=32|chapter=2. 'Hua'|author-link=Katherine Frank}}</ref> He returned with Vijaya Lakshmi the following November.<ref name=BeforeFreedomp.30-31>Sahgal, 2004, pp. 30-31.</ref><ref name=Nehru1936>Nehru, Jawaharlal. (1936). [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.98834 ''Jawaharlal Nehru. (1936) An Autobiography'']. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. p. 147</ref> Until this European trip, Pandit was a successful lawyer who practiced in what was then called [[Calcutta]] with [[B. L. Mitter|Sir B. L. Mitter]].<ref name="Mehta2008"/> Against the wishes of his family in Rajkot, he became a [[Satyagraha|Satyagrahi]] and joined Mahatma Gandhi and Motilal Nehru in the Indian non-cooperation movement and settled in [[Allahabad]], where he took up cases in the courts.<ref name="Mehta2008"/> Later, they moved to Khali, in the hills near [[Almora]].<ref name=Frankp.187-189>Frank, 2010, p. 187-189</ref> | ||
When the [[Indian National Congress]]'s 1928 proposal for [[Dominion|Dominion status]] was rejected by the British, the party took a pledge of non-cooperation and demanded "complete independence".<ref name=BeforeFreedomp.30-31/> Vijaya Lakshmi later recorded in her autobiography, that on 29 December 1929, upon the [[Purna Swaraj|declaration of independence]] by the Congress's then president Jawaharlal Nehru, Pandit joined him in the celebrations.<ref name=BeforeFreedomp.30-31/> | When the [[Indian National Congress]]'s 1928 proposal for [[Dominion|Dominion status]] was rejected by the British, the party took a pledge of non-cooperation and demanded "complete independence".<ref name=BeforeFreedomp.30-31/> Vijaya Lakshmi later recorded in her autobiography, that on 29 December 1929, upon the [[Purna Swaraj|declaration of independence]] by the Congress's then president Jawaharlal Nehru, Pandit joined him in the celebrations.<ref name=BeforeFreedomp.30-31/> | ||