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Description:
Sheila Kaul
(
Hindi
,
Kashmiri
: शीला कौल,
Urdu
,
Kashmiri
: شیلا کول) (born February 7, 1915) is a
social democratic
leader of the
Indian National Congress
and a former union
cabinet minister
and provincial
Governor
in
India
. She was also an
educationist
,
social worker
, and
social reformer
in the Indian state of
Uttar Pradesh
, and an independence activist in
British India
. She is
Jawaharlal Nehru
's sister-in-law and
Indira Gandhi
's maternal aunt.
Personal life
Sheila Kaul belongs to a
Kashmiri Pandit
family. She has a degree in arts from the
Lahore
Women's College, and a degree in teaching from Sir Ganga Ram Training College,
Lahore
, and was a State
Badminton
Champion in the pre-partition
Punjab
. Kaul has lived in
Lucknow
,
Lahore
,
Multan
,
Kanpur
,
Srinagar
,
London
,
Sofia
, and
New Delhi
.
Prof.
Kailas Nath Kaul
, a renowned
botanist
, and formerly, a world authority on palms, was Sheila Kaul's husband. He established the
National Botanical Research Institute
(formerly the National Botanical Gardens) in Lucknow, India. Gautam Kaul, a former Director General of the
Indo-Tibetan Border Police
and
film critic
, and Vikram Kaul, an international sports administrator,...
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