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Prison and Chocolate Cake
by Nayantara Sahgal
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About This Item
First edition, stated.
xvi, 236 p., iii; illustrated; 21 cm. Includes Glossary (235-236) and Index (i-iii).
Black cloth hardcover with charming deckled edge paper, decoration and lettering in copper and silver gilt to cover and spine, shows only very mild shelfwear and sunning to edges, while the inside is in Fine condition, with numerous photographic reproductions. The dust jacket, however, is present in tatters. Please see listing images.
From dust jacket:
The lighthearted and glamorous story of her childhood and youth in India and the United States [...]
NAYANTARA SAHGAL is a daughter of Mme Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and a niece of Jawaharlal Nehru. Born in 1927, she has enjoyed a life rich in color, in the most varied human circumstance, and in both serious and hilarious close-ups of the great. In Prison and Chocolate Cake she has told the story of her life lightly, wittily, and well in a book that begins with her departure from India in 1943 (when most members of her family were in prison) and ends with her return to India in 1947, when her mother was Indian Ambassador to Moscow and when she herself acted at Delhi as hostess for her uncle, the Prime Minister. Between these equally unlikely events, Mrs. Sahgal tells the human story of the warm family circle into which she was born at Allahabad; the events of her stay in the United States, including four years at Wellesley College; and many penetrating anecdotes of her remarkable father, the late Ranjit Sitaram Pandit; of her mother, now President of the General Assembly of the United Nations; of Mahatma Gandhi, on whose funeral train she rode; of her sisters, Chandralekha and Rita; of Lord and Lady Mountbatten when they were the last viceroy and vicereine of India; of Uday Shankar, Pearl Buck — and sundry sharply observed and neatly ticketed Indian relatives, friends, and servants—as well as Americans from department-store clerks and square dancers to rich hostesses and movie stars.
Prison and Chocolate Cake is the book of a beautiful, gay, lighthearted girl who writes well, and on whom the serious import of the remarkable events she has witnessed has by no means been lost.
Nayantara Sahgal [was] born in Allahabad, India, in 1927, the second of three daughters of Ranjit Sitaram Pandit and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. Her parents and several members of their families were leading supporters of Mahatma Gandhi—most notably, of course, her mother's brother, Jawaharlal Nehru, later to become the first Prime Minister of independent India. Mrs. Sahgal was educated by governesses, at a British school in India, and at Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts ). She spent the years from 1943 to 1947 in America, managing to see much of the United States and make a side-trip to Mexico before her return to India in 1947. At present she lives in Bombay with her husband and two small children. During 1953 Nayantara Sahgal contributed both an essay and a poem to the Atlantic's special supplement on India, edited for the Ford Foundation's Intercultural project by Harvey Breit.
CHAPTERS
En Route to America
Politics and Us
Indian Childhood
The Elections and After
Interlude
The Atmosphere of Home
The War to Us
Wedding Story
Indian Symphony
Before Departure
The First Glimpse
Nehru's Nieces
About People
Some Thoughts on Education
Speaking of India
Vacations
Rita's Graduation
The United Nations
Going Home
With Pride and Prejudice
ILLUSTRATIONS
Nayantara Sahgal
Mme Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her three daughters
Anand Bhawan
Ranjit Sitaram Pandit
Mme Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Rita Pandit, Danny Kaye, Nayantara, Holly-wood 1946
Mme Pandit, Nayantara, Chandralekha, Rita, Carlos Romulo, Mrs. Romulo
Thakier Nu, Nayantara, Jawaharlal Nehru
xvi, 236 p., iii; illustrated; 21 cm. Includes Glossary (235-236) and Index (i-iii).
Black cloth hardcover with charming deckled edge paper, decoration and lettering in copper and silver gilt to cover and spine, shows only very mild shelfwear and sunning to edges, while the inside is in Fine condition, with numerous photographic reproductions. The dust jacket, however, is present in tatters. Please see listing images.
From dust jacket:
The lighthearted and glamorous story of her childhood and youth in India and the United States [...]
NAYANTARA SAHGAL is a daughter of Mme Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and a niece of Jawaharlal Nehru. Born in 1927, she has enjoyed a life rich in color, in the most varied human circumstance, and in both serious and hilarious close-ups of the great. In Prison and Chocolate Cake she has told the story of her life lightly, wittily, and well in a book that begins with her departure from India in 1943 (when most members of her family were in prison) and ends with her return to India in 1947, when her mother was Indian Ambassador to Moscow and when she herself acted at Delhi as hostess for her uncle, the Prime Minister. Between these equally unlikely events, Mrs. Sahgal tells the human story of the warm family circle into which she was born at Allahabad; the events of her stay in the United States, including four years at Wellesley College; and many penetrating anecdotes of her remarkable father, the late Ranjit Sitaram Pandit; of her mother, now President of the General Assembly of the United Nations; of Mahatma Gandhi, on whose funeral train she rode; of her sisters, Chandralekha and Rita; of Lord and Lady Mountbatten when they were the last viceroy and vicereine of India; of Uday Shankar, Pearl Buck — and sundry sharply observed and neatly ticketed Indian relatives, friends, and servants—as well as Americans from department-store clerks and square dancers to rich hostesses and movie stars.
Prison and Chocolate Cake is the book of a beautiful, gay, lighthearted girl who writes well, and on whom the serious import of the remarkable events she has witnessed has by no means been lost.
Nayantara Sahgal [was] born in Allahabad, India, in 1927, the second of three daughters of Ranjit Sitaram Pandit and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. Her parents and several members of their families were leading supporters of Mahatma Gandhi—most notably, of course, her mother's brother, Jawaharlal Nehru, later to become the first Prime Minister of independent India. Mrs. Sahgal was educated by governesses, at a British school in India, and at Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts ). She spent the years from 1943 to 1947 in America, managing to see much of the United States and make a side-trip to Mexico before her return to India in 1947. At present she lives in Bombay with her husband and two small children. During 1953 Nayantara Sahgal contributed both an essay and a poem to the Atlantic's special supplement on India, edited for the Ford Foundation's Intercultural project by Harvey Breit.
CHAPTERS
En Route to America
Politics and Us
Indian Childhood
The Elections and After
Interlude
The Atmosphere of Home
The War to Us
Wedding Story
Indian Symphony
Before Departure
The First Glimpse
Nehru's Nieces
About People
Some Thoughts on Education
Speaking of India
Vacations
Rita's Graduation
The United Nations
Going Home
With Pride and Prejudice
ILLUSTRATIONS
Nayantara Sahgal
Mme Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her three daughters
Anand Bhawan
Ranjit Sitaram Pandit
Mme Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Rita Pandit, Danny Kaye, Nayantara, Holly-wood 1946
Mme Pandit, Nayantara, Chandralekha, Rita, Carlos Romulo, Mrs. Romulo
Thakier Nu, Nayantara, Jawaharlal Nehru
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- Title
- Prison and Chocolate Cake
- Author
- Nayantara Sahgal
- Illustrator
- BRADFORD BACHRACH (photographer); JOHN TEPPICH (design)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1954
- Pages
- 236
- Size
- 21
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Memoir; Family; Pandit; Nehru; Gandhi; idependence; Manners and customs; Travel; India; United States; India Social life and customs; United States Description and travel; Racism;
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