Sarvepalli Gopal linked archives with diplomacy, helped document India’s China border case and became a major historian of Nehru and modern India.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit moved from India’s freedom struggle to global diplomacy, becoming the first woman president of the UN General Assembly.
Sardar Baldev Singh became India’s first Defence Minister in 1947. Explore his role in Partition, Sikh politics, Kashmir and the new Indian military.
Rajendra Prasad’s most important contribution may have been institutional rather than dramatic: he presided over the Constituent Assembly and then helped establish the conventions…
