Ranjit Sitaram Pandit

Ranjit Sitaram Pandit
Sitaram Pandit as MLA of UP in 1937[1]
Born	1893 Rajkot, Rajkot State, British India
Died	14 January 1944 (aged 50–51) Lucknow, United Provinces, British India
Nationality	Indian
Occupations	Barrister Politician
Spouse	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit ​ ​ (m. 1921)​
Children	3, including Nayantara Sahgal
Academic background
Education	Christ Church, University of Oxford
Influences	Mahatma Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru
Academic work
Notable works	Translations of Rajatarangini Mudrarakshasa Ṛtusaṃhāra

Ranjit Sitaram Pandit (1893 – 14 January 1944) was an Indian barrister, politician, author and scholar from Rajkot in the Kathiawar region of British India. He is known for his role in the Indian non-cooperation movement, and for translating the Sanskrit texts Mudrarakshasa, Ṛtusaṃhāra and Kalhana's Rajatarangini into English.

He was the husband of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the son-in-law of Motilal Nehru, brother-in-law of Jawaharlal Nehru and father of Nayantara Sahgal.

Until 1926, he was a barrister in Calcutta, a position he resigned to join the Indian non-cooperation movement. In 1930, he was the Secretary of the Peshawar Enquiry Committee, which investigated the troubles in the North West Frontier Province. Later, he was appointed a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (UP).

Pandit died in 1944, shortly after being released from his fourth imprisonment by the British.