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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