[4] Sahni joined her botanist husband on collecting trips through the Himalayas and Kashmir.

[7] Savitri Sahni was awarded the Padma Shri in 1969, for her services to science.

[6][8] Savitri Suri married paleobotanist Birbal Sahni in 1920.

[9][10] She was widowed when Sahni died in 1949,[11][12] and thereafter wore only white silk, a symbol of her widowhood.

[6] Her home, designed by American architect Walter Burley Griffin,[13] became a museum; her estate was left to the Birbal-Savitri Sahni Foundation in Lucknow, to fund the museum, a lecture series, fellowships for researchers, and awards for scientific achievement.