Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal

Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal was a member of Jawaharlal Nehru's family and an Indian writer. Sahgal's father grew up in Nehru's childhood home. Sahgal was an active participant in India's struggle for independence. A leader in student politics during her college years, Sahgal followed her mother and sisters in brief prison terms for demonstrating against the British Raj. Between 1930 and 1935, Sahgal finished college, became a teacher and was a member of the revolutionary Indian National Congress. In 1935, she married a government bureaucrat and, she explains, had to give up politics as well as active association with her old friends. In her autobiography she describes following her husband to various posts, supervising a growing household. Sahgal joined various ladies clubs and volunteer welfare organizations: as a member of the Catering Advisory Committee for the North Eastern Railway, she investigated charges against crooked vendors at train stations. She made an unsuccessful run for public office.^[1]

Works

• An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls Her Life. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe. 1994. ISBN 978-1-56324-339-4. 

See also

• Nehru-Gandhi family

References