1. During her tenure as minister, she once faced down an angry mob that had gathered outside her home. She had no security, on the grounds the protest was a democratic right, and the mob had surrounded the house and broken all the windows. She suddenly stormed outside, stood on a chair and welcomed a conversation with them. Violence was their privilege, she told them, but would only backfire. The crowd dispersed and she received a letter of apology several weeks later. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, The Scope of Happiness (New York: Crown Publishers, 1979), pp. 141–143.
2. Marika Sherwood, “India at the Founding of the United Nations,” International Studies 33:4 (1996), p. 413
3. Robert Rhodes James, Robert Boothby: A Portrait of Churchill’s Ally (New York: Viking, 1991), pp. 146–147.