Sharda Mukherjee was governor of Indian state of Gujarat and Andhara Pradesh. She was governor of Gujarat from 1978 to 1983.She was wife of Air Chief Marshall Subroto Mukerjee

Subroto Mukerjee

Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, OBE was the first Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force . Born in a Bengali family of repute, he was educated in India as well as England. He joined the Royal Air Force and later was one of the first recruits of the Indian Air Force...

.Sharda Mukherjee was born as Sharda Pandit in Rajkot in a Maharashtrian

Marathi people

The Marathi people or Maharashtrians are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, that inhabit the Maharashtra region and state of western India. Their language Marathi is part of the southern group of Indo-Aryan languages...

 family. She met Air Chief Marshall Subroto Mukherjee in Bombay in 1937. They got married in 1939 and had a son.

External links

• http://www.bssshillong.org/photo2.htm
• http://indianairforce.nic.in/show_page.php?pg_id=1
• http://www.defenceindia.com/defenceind/iaf_legends.html

Subroto Mukherjee was the first Indian Air Chief Marshall.