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Krishna Nehru Hutheesing (2 November 1907 – 9 November 1967) was an Indian writer, the youngest sister of
She and her husband fought for India's independence and spent a great deal of time in jail. Raja's terms in jail came while they were raising their two young sons, Harsha Hutheesing and Ajit Hutheesing.
In 1950, Krishna and her husband toured the United States on a lecture tour. In late May 1958 Krishna spent three days in
Online text, 1945 edition
Krishna Nehru Hutheesing materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hutheesing, Krishna Nehru 1907 births 1967 deaths Indian women non-fiction writers Women biographers Women writers from Uttar Pradesh Nehru–Gandhi family Kashmiri people Indian autobiographers Indian independence activists from Uttar Pradesh Prisoners and detainees of British India Writers from Allahabad Women autobiographers 20th-century Indian women writers 20th-century Indian biographers Swatantra Party politicians 20th-century Indian politicians Women Indian independence activists Politicians from Allahabad Women in Uttar Pradesh politics
Jawaharlal Nehru
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (; ; ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat—
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and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit ('' née'' Swarup Nehru; 18 August 1900 – 1 December 1990) was an Indian diplomat and politician who was the 6th Governor of Maharashtra from 1962 to 1964 and 8th President of the United Nations General Assembly from 19 ...
, and part of the Nehru-Gandhi family.
Biography
Born Krishna Nehru, in Mirganj,Allahabad
Allahabad (), officially known as Prayagraj, also known as Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi (Benares). It is the administrat ...
to Motilal Nehru
Motilal Nehru (6 May 1861 – 6 February 1931) was an Indian lawyer, activist and politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. He also served as the Congress President twice, 1919–1920 and 1928–1929. He was a patriarch of the Nehr ...
, an Indian independence activist and leader of the Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...
, and Swarup Rani, she was married to Gunottam (Raja) Hutheesing
The Hutheesing family ( gu, હઠીસિંહ ) is a Jain family from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Several temples and charitable institutions in Ahmedabad have been built or founded by members of this mercantile family. Krishna Hutheesing, a ...
, who belonged to an Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per t ...
Jain family that built the Hutheesing Jain Temple
Hutheesing Temple is a Jain temple in Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India. It was constructed in 1848 by Hutheesing family. The temple blends the old Maru-Gurjara temple architecture style with new architectural elements of ''haveli'' in its design.
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. During the later 1950s, he became critic of Nehru and in 1959, supported former Governor General C. Rajagopalachari
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (10 December 1878 – 25 December 1972), popularly known as Rajaji or C.R., also known as Mootharignar Rajaji (Rajaji'', the Scholar Emeritus''), was an Indian statesman, writer, lawyer, and independence activis ...
, to form a conservative market liberal political party known as the Swatantra Party
The Swatantra Party was an Indian classical liberal political party, that existed from 1959 to 1974. It was founded by C. Rajagopalachari in reaction to what he felt was the Jawaharlal Nehru-dominated Indian National Congress's increasingly soci ...
.
She and her husband fought for India's independence and spent a great deal of time in jail. Raja's terms in jail came while they were raising their two young sons, Harsha Hutheesing and Ajit Hutheesing.
In 1950, Krishna and her husband toured the United States on a lecture tour. In late May 1958 Krishna spent three days in Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
. Her host was Yigal Alon
Yigal Allon ( he, יגאל אלון; 10 October 1918 – 29 February 1980) was an Israeli politician, commander of the Palmach, and general in the IDF. He served as one of the leaders of Ahdut HaAvoda party and the Israeli Labor party, and brie ...
, who a year earlier founded 'The Israel-India Friendship League' as a tool to circumvent the then Indian government policy to avoid direct diplomatic relations between the two states.
Mrs. Hutheesing documented her life as well as the lives of her brother, Jawaharlal and her niece, Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (; Given name, ''née'' Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was elected as third prime minister of India in 1966 ...
, in a series of books that intertwine history with personal anecdotes including ''We Nehrus,'' ''With No Regrets- An Autobiography,'' and ''Dear to Behold: An Intimate Portrait of Indira Gandhi''
Her husband, Raja Hutheesing, also wrote books: ''The Great Peace: An Asian's Candid Report on Red China'' (1953), ''Window on China'' (1953), and ''Tibet fights for freedom : the story of the March 1959 uprising'' (1960).
Mrs. Hutheesing was associated with the ' Voice of America' and gave several talks. She died in London in 1967.
Bibliography
* ''Shadows On the Wall'', J. Day Co., 1948. * ''The Story of Gandhiji'', Kutub Pub., 1949. * ''We Nehrus'', by Krishna (Nehru) Hutheesing withAlden Hatch
Alden R. Hatch (September 16, 1898 - February 1, 1975) was an American writer. He was the son of May D. Hatch and her husband Frederic H. Hatch, owner of a successful Wall Street brokerage firm, stock brokerage firm he founded in 1888. Alden's bro ...
. Holt, Rinehart and Winston; 1967.
* ''Dear to Behold: An Intimate Portrait of Indira Gandhi'', Published by Macmillan, 1969.
* ''With No Regrets - An Autobiography'', by Krishna Nehru Hutheesing, Published by READ BOOKS, 2007. .Online text, 1945 edition
References
External links
Krishna Nehru Hutheesing materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hutheesing, Krishna Nehru 1907 births 1967 deaths Indian women non-fiction writers Women biographers Women writers from Uttar Pradesh Nehru–Gandhi family Kashmiri people Indian autobiographers Indian independence activists from Uttar Pradesh Prisoners and detainees of British India Writers from Allahabad Women autobiographers 20th-century Indian women writers 20th-century Indian biographers Swatantra Party politicians 20th-century Indian politicians Women Indian independence activists Politicians from Allahabad Women in Uttar Pradesh politics