Vijayalakshmi Pandit: Gendering and Racing against the Postcolonial Predicament
(2023)
Book Chapter
Menon, P. Vijayalakshmi Pandit: Gendering and Racing against the Postcolonial Predicament. In I. Tallgren (Ed.), Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces? (244-252). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868453.003.0019
Subjected to both the male and Orientalist gaze at the United Nations, its ‘first female’ President, Vijayalakshmi Pandit, embodied the paradox of many colonial elites in India: a British-influenced upbringing combined with radical anti-colonial purs... Read More about Vijayalakshmi Pandit: Gendering and Racing against the Postcolonial Predicament.