Noor Inayat Khan
NoorunNisa Inayat Khan GC , Devanagari was an Allied Special Operations Executive agent during the Second World War who was posthumously awarded the George Cross, the highest civilian decoration in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth nations. Also known as Nora Baker, Madeleine, and JeanneMarie Rennier, she was of Indian and American origin. As an SOE agent, she became the first female radio operator to be sent from Britain into occupied France to aid the French Resistance.
Inayat Khan, the eldest of four children, was born in St. Petersburg . Her siblings were Vilayat , Hidayat , and KhairunNisa . Her father, Hazrat Inayat Khan, came from a noble Indian Muslim family his mother was a descendant of the uncle of Tipu Sultan, the 18thcentury ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore. He lived in Europe as a musician and a teacher of Sufism. Her mother, Ameena Begum , was an American from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who met Hazrat Inayat Khan during his travels in the United States. Ora Baker was the halfsister of American yogi and scholar Pierre Bernard, her guardian at the time she met Inayat . Vilayat later became head of the Sufi Order International.
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