Marriage
Born on 1 August 1899 and brought up in a traditional Kashmiri Brahmin middle class family of old Delhi, she wedded Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru at the age of 17. All her schooling had been at home, under the guidance of a Pandit and a Maulvi. She gave birth to a girl child named Indira Priyadarshini in 1917.
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“If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future.”
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