Begum : a portrait of Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan's pioneering first lady
- Haryana Penguin Random House 2019
- xxi, 216 p. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan was the wife of Pakistan's first prime minister. She was born Irene Margaret Pant in Kumaon in the early twentieth century. A generation earlier, her family had converted to Christianity, and Irene grew up in the shadow of the Brahmin community's still active outrage. Always intelligent, outgoing and independent, she was teaching economics in a Delhi college when she met the dashing Nawazada Liaquat Ali Khan, a rising politician in the Muslim League and an ardent champion of the cause for Pakistan.