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Krishna Nehru Hutheesing (2 November 1907 – 9 November 1967) was an Indian writer, the youngest sister of Jawaharlal Nehru and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and part of the Nehru-Gandhi family.
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
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
Biography
Born Krishna Nehru, in Mirganj,Allahabad
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to Motilal Nehru, an Indian independence activist and leader of the Indian National Congress, 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, ...
, who belonged to an Ahmedabad
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Jain family that built the Hutheesing Jain Temple. During the later 1950s, he became critic of Nehru and in 1959, supported former Governor General C. Rajagopalachari, to form a conservative market liberal political party known as the Swatantra Party.
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
Ajit Gunottam Hutheesing (4 March 1936 – 8 December 2017) was the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of International Capital Partners Inc. (ICP). ICP commenced investment activities in 1992, providing private placement equity to fi ...
.
In 1950, Krishna and her husband toured the United States on a lecture tour. In late May 1958 Krishna spent three days in Israel. Her host was Yigal Alon, 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