General Debate speaker

Pandit

Addressed the General Debate 4 times for India, between 1946 and 1952 — 8,829 words in all. The longest was 1948, at 3,329.

Also recorded as “PANDIT”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.

The record gives a surname and no more. United Nations rosters before the mid-1990s often record only a family name, so these 4 statements are grouped by that name and the name of the state. Where a state sent two people who shared a surname, this page would combine them, and nothing in the record would show it.

02,5005,0001946: 1,552 words1947: 2,058 words1948: 3,329 words1952: 1,890 words19461952
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1946 1 not recorded 1,552
1947 2 not recorded 2,058
1948 3 not recorded 3,329
1952 7 not recorded 1,890

United Nations records do not consistently identify a speaker’s office before 1994, so a blank means the record does not say.

What the statements mention most

disarmament 3 self determination 2 colonialism 1 human rights 1 rule of law 1 aids 1 poverty 1

Counts of words from a published list across these 4 statements. A count is a fact about a word: it is not a measure of what this person believed, argued for, or cared about, and nothing on this page should be read that way.

Everything here is drawn from what Pandit said in an official capacity at the rostrum of the General Assembly, as published by the United Nations. Nothing else about them is collected or inferred.

Where this page comes from