indira gandhi

Inira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindi: इंदिरा प्रियदर्शिनी गांधी Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī) (19 November 1917 - October 31, 1984) was the Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India's first and to date only female prime minister.

Trivia about indira gandhi

This prime minister was assassinated by one of her own security guards October 31, 1984
Her maiden name was Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
2 Sikh bodyguards assassinated this Indian prime minister on Oct. 31, 1984
It was once said of her, "Indira is India, and India is Indira"
The international airport in New Delhi bears her name
The international airport in New Delhi bears her name
Feroze, the man whom this future prime minister married in 1942, was not related to the Mahatma
From 1966 to 1977 & from 1980 to 1984, she led the world's largest democracy
She was elected president of India's Congress Party in 1959, while her father was Prime Minister
This late female leader of India was called Indu for short
Her 1984 assassination was in retaliation for an attack she ordered on the Sikhs' holiest shrine
This prime minister was also the daughter of a prime minister & the mother of a prime minister
A 1978 secession from India's Congress Party formed the Congress (I), with the I standing for her
Later a prime minister, she was born November 19, 1917 in Allahabad
Jawaharlal Nehru's daughter
India's national peace prize is named for this leader who was slain in 1984
Like mom like son: sadly, her son Rajiv was also assassinated
The Nov. 1, 1984 obituary for this woman noted that she "presided over the world's most populous democracy"
In 1975 an Allahabad court found this Indian prime minister guilty of 2 counts of corruption
An Asian prime minister for 15 years, she was called "Indu" for short
On Oct. 31, 1984 this prime minister was assassinated by 2 Sikh bodyguards
Bodyguards Satwant & Beant Singh killed this female leader of India in 1984
1984:Beant Singh & Satwant Singh
In 1984 2 of her Sikh bodyguards killed her as revenge for her order to attack the Golden Temple of Amritsar
After briefly attending Oxford University, she returned to India in 1941 & married a Parsi lawyer the following year
Her assassination in 1984 was in retaliation for an attack she ordered on the Sikhs' holiest shrine
On Jan. 19, 1966 this woman was elected the third prime minister of her country
In 1986 the canal named for this woman began providing irrigation to the Great Indian Desert
This Indian prime minister was the daughter of a prime minister & the mother of a prime minister
The first female prime minister of her country, she held the post from 1966 to '77 & from 1980 to her 1984 death
Can't wait to go to Visva-Bharati U.! Future goal: to be the "I" in '70s Congress-I Party & be India's Madam P.M. (again)
On this woman's orders, Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple at Amritsar to oust Sikh fighters holed up there
In 1980 she became prime minister of her country for a fourth term
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads next to a rocking chair in the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) Because of his bad back, President Kennedy often sat in one of his famous rocking chairs, even when meeting with this future prime minister in 1962

Found pages about indira gandhi

Users that searched for indira gandhi

Back to all keywords