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  Indira Gandhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (इन्दिरा प्रियदर्शिनी गान्धी) (November 19, 1917 October 31, 1984) was Prime Minister of India from January 19, 1966 to March 24, 1977, and from January 14, 1980 until her assassination in 1984.
Indira was born to his young wife Kamala as Nehru entered the struggle and Mahatma Gandhi prepared the masses for a new kind of revolution.
Indira may have seen traits of Feroze in Sanjay and was ever-anxious to please him, as she perceived that Sanjay blamed her for his father's death.
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 Encyclopedia: Indira Gandhi
In 1959-1960, Indira was elected the President of the Indian National Congress, with her father advocating her run from behind the scenes.
Indira was gaining experience of government by acting as her father's chief of staff.
Indira's actions were probably not directly aimed at Shastri or her own political elevation, but are indicative that, while she lacked interest for details in work and was a lack-lustre Minister, she was media-savvy, and adept at the art of politics and image-making.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Indira-Gandhi   (9353 words)

  
 Manas: History and Politics, Indira Gandhi
A famous photograph from her childhood shows her sitting by the bedside of Mahatma Gandhi, as he recovered from one of his fasts; and though she was not actively involved in the freedom struggle, she came to know the entire Indian political leadership.
In 1964, the year of her father's death, Indira Gandhi was for the first time elected to Parliament, and she was Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the government of Lal Bahadur Shastri, who died unexpectedly of a heart attack less than two years after assuming office.
In the second, post-Emergency, period of her Prime Ministership, Indira Gandhi was preoccupied by efforts to resolve the political problems in the state of Punjab.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/Independent/Indira.html   (837 words)

  
 Indira Gandhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Indira Nehru Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917 and would be the only child of Jawaharlal and Kamala Nehru.
Even though Indira Gandhi believed that she was democratic, she did not continue that democratic belief of her father and Shastri.
Indira felt that the only way to rid the charges against him was to become prime minister again.
www.kings.edu /womens_history/igandhi.html   (3363 words)

  
 Ghandi
Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India (1966-1977; 1980-1984), was born to Kamla and Jawaharlal Nehru on November 19, 1917.
Indira had a brief, unsucessful marriage in 1942 and returned to her father’s home.
She was elected to the executive body of the Congress party in 1955 and became president of the party in 1959.
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 Al Shindagah
Ghandi was a single minded woman with strong opinions who devoted her life to bettering her country.
Ghandi's actions were not always popular, but she determined that maintaining her vision for India, meant exerting strict control.
in Mademoiselle Magazine in 1969, Ghandi replied "being a woman is to perceive the indignity and inequality which corrodes the human condition; to act with compassion and involvement to find solutions which are born of a fusion of the mind and heart; to ensure that, instead of confrontation and conflict, there is understanding and enrichment.
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 Indira Ghandi
Indira Gandhi was the first lady Prime Minister of India and the third incumbent of the high office, is the only surviving issue of Pandit Jawaharlal and Kamala Nehru, Born on 19 November, 1917, educated at various institutions including Tagore’s Santiniketan (1934-35) and Samerville, Oxford (1936-41).
On October 31, 1984, Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, was shot down while walking from her house to her office in New Delhi, India's capital city.
She was chosen as Prime Minister in 1966, and with the exception of a three year period during which she was first voted out of office and then subsequently voted back in, Gandhi remained the Prime Minister until her death.
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 Nehru-Khan-Gandhi dynasty
Indira Nehru married Feroze (Khan) Gandhi in 1942 and became Indira Gandhi, which helped her politically as daughter of Nehru (the first Prime Minister of the Indian Union) and daughter–in-law of Gandhi (the father of the nation) securing her place in the future Nehru-Gandhi dynasty (based on swordoftruth.com).
Indira Gandhi ruled the country from 1966 to 1984, except for a short period from 1977 to 1980.
Rajiv (Khan) Gandhi was born to Indira (Khan) Gandhi and Feroze (Khan) Gandhi.
www.vepachedu.org /Nehrudynasty.html   (693 words)

  
 History Channel Classroom:
Mahatma Ghandi was one of the world's greatest leaders, but there are no indications of his future greatness in his early life.
Ghandi spent most of his life trying to bring peace to India, yet he dies in a violent manner.
Indira Ghandi's son, Rajiv, became prime minister after the assassination of his mother.
www.historychannel.com /classroom/admin/study_guide/archives/thc_guide.0013.html   (342 words)

  
 Gandhi, Indira on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Indira, el shari de hierro: en el siglo de las mujeres, Indira Gandhi constituyó todo un símbolo.
Indira GANDHI with journalists before flying to Benares during her campaign for women in the Muslim parliment.
Indira GANDHI making a political speech during her campaign for women in the Muslim parliment in.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Gandhi-I1.asp   (639 words)

  
 Women Who Made a Difference as Leaders of Their Nations -- Brown Quarterly -- v. 5, no. 1 -- Winter 2002
Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) was the only child of Kamla and Jawaharlal Nehru.
Indira Gandhi managed his official residence and went with him on foreign trips.
In her second term from 1980-84, Indira Gandhi ordered an assault which damaged a sacred Sikh temple where armed terrorists were waging a campaign against the government.
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 Indira Gandhi : Indira ghandi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
As a woman occupying the highest position of government in a still very patriarchal society, Indira was expected to be a passive leader, but her actions would prove to be the contrary.
This included the appointment of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed[?] as President, a weak man whom Indira was confident would never dare exercise his prerogative powers and undermine her authority.
It was at this point that she utilized President Ahmed and using him as her puppet, made him issue "extraordinary laws" that bypassed parliament altogether, and allowed her to rule by decree.
www.eurofreehost.com /in/Indira_ghandi_2.html   (373 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 7 | 1980: Gandhi returned by landslide vote
When the last of the 196 million votes in national elections were counted, her Congress (Indira) party had won 351 of the 525 contested seats in the lower house of parliament, or Lok Sabha.
Indira Gandhi's first formal speech after her election victory spoke of compromise, even for her opponents.
She said the nation had to be lifted from the "ruinous state" into which it had fallen.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/7/newsid_2506000/2506387.stm   (536 words)

  
 Women's Center - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Indira Ghandi was born on November 19, 1917, in Allahabad, India to Jawaharlal and Kamala Nehru.
Indira was introduced to political activism, socialism, and the need for political mobilization for the freedom of all a young age.
This moment came when Mohandas Ghandi, “the pacifist leader of the Indian freedom movement” visited her parents and “succeeded in converting them to the cause of Indian independence (www.galegroup.com; full citation in Works Cited).
womenscenter.virginia.edu /news/2004-4-19.htm   (862 words)

  
 PM - Former ABC reporter dies of brain tumor aged 46
INDIRA GHANDI: I came into the job unwillingly, but it was a job to be done.
INDIRA GHANDI: The newspapers are not our newspapers, in fact most of them are against us.
INDIRA GHANDI: Well, I can't say yes or no. But certainly that day is nowhere in the very near future.
www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s241397.htm   (748 words)

  
 Correspondents Report - BJP Party expected to romp home in Indian polls
By marriage she is a member of the Ghandi family, the dynasty which began with Jawarharlal Nehru’s first prime ministership of India.
His daughter was Indira Ghandi, also a prime minister until she was assassinated.
I asked Maneka Ghandi whether her allegiances in some mirrors mirrored those of India as a whole, which has drifted away from Congress to the BJP, a rapidly modernising party which first came to power on the back of sectarian strife.
www.abc.net.au /correspondents/content/2004/s1055434.htm   (979 words)

  
 Indira Gandhi
Two years after his death in 1964, Indira Gandhi assumed her father's post as the leader of the world's largest democracy.
Indira Gandhi - Gandhi, Indira, 1917–84, Indian political leader; daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru.
Indira's independence Power came late to Indira Gandhi, but when it did it transformed her, says Sunil Khilnani (The Sunday Telegraph)
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 indira Ghandi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
According to history Indira Ghandi ruled her country to strive for peace and prosperity.
In fact, Indira Ghandi fought for economical progress and social reform.
Indiras first son was Ragiv was born in 1944 after Indira was released from prison 9 months later.
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 Indira Gandhi : Indira ghandi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Indira's reign as dictatress would last for almost two years.
Though she had a strong personality, and her reign was popular with many segments of India's population, especially the youth and the poor, her decision to declare a state of emergency solely to escape prosecution remains controversial.
Indira's regin also saw a serious breakdown in Hindu/Sikh relations that would eventually lead to her own assasination.
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 Welcome to A History of Female Apartheid
Insiders who in 1966 brokered the selection of Indira Gandhi, daughter of Indian national hero Jawaharlal Nehru, as prime minister figured her for a pampered pussycat.
She led her nation to victory in a war with Pakistan -- although she couldn't win against India's crippling poverty and sectarian violence -- and she gave diplomatic recognition to Bangladesh.
His widow, Sonia, leads the opposition Congress Party, and her daughter, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, is a rising political star.
homepage.eircom.net /~kittyhawk/suffrage/Xheros_past_indira.htm   (139 words)

  
 SiberNews Media! - Let A Bond Be Born
Indira Ghandi's government, in contrast to this, had close ties with Soviet Russia which had been a super power then.
Indira Ghandi wanted the struggle of the Eelam Tamils to become an unrelenting headache to J. Jayawardne's government and thereby made to seek
He has extensively described Indira Ghandi's thinking on the issues of the State of Sri Lanka, the Tamil issue and the Tamil Freedom fighters.
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 Engineering doctoral candidate receives Indira Ghandi Fellowship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Zhou is currently working on his doctoral thesis in mechanical engineering, having completed his doctoral course work with an impeccable GPA of 12.
The Indira Gandhi Memorial Fellowship was established in 1985 by friends of India to honour the memory of Mrs.
Indira Gandhi, and is awarded annually to an outstanding student, preferably foreign, enrolled in any graduate program at Carleton.
www.carleton.ca /prinfo/twac/97/jan9/s16.html   (115 words)

  
 Voter power
Her late husband, Rajiv Ghandi, elder son of Indira Ghandi, was assassinated during the 1991 election.
Ghandi did indeed make an unlikely candidate, and was dismissed by her opponents as a “half-bred Jersey cow” and an “Italian housewife.”
Ghandi will not be leading the government herself, but the Congress Party will certainly at first redirect its energies towards a much more inward-looking agenda than has recently been the case.
www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ed052104b.cfm   (813 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 31 | 1984: Indian prime minister shot dead
Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, has been killed by assassins in New Delhi.
Mrs Gandhi was thought to have been walking through her gardens this morning when she was shot.
Riots erupted across India following the murder of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, as Hindus took their revenge on Sikhs who were blamed for the assassination.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/31/newsid_2464000/2464423.stm   (456 words)

  
 Funds for children in Kabul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
From their private pockets the leaders donated money to the establishment of a diabetes clinic at the Indira Ghandi paediatric hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.
On his visit to the Indira Ghandi hospital Sardar Isaqzai met 10 year old Abdullah, who has type 1 diabetes: “He had lost all hope for the future.
The fundraising activity for the Indira Ghandi Hospital complements the greater project funded by The World Diabetes Foundation, which includes the upgrade of four existing diabetes clinics in Kabul.
www.worlddiabetesfoundation.org /composite-724.htm   (712 words)

  
 I make web pages. I am a spider. I shoot string out of my butt.
India's Indira Ghandi was the first democratically elected woman leader in the entire world.
Indira was in love with Feroze; but he was of different religion, and her father dissaproved.
However, Mahatma Ghandi (the famous allmighty peace keeper) adopted Feroze, who then was able to change his beliefs, and they were married.
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 Indira Ghandi Crystal Studded T-Shirt
Indira Gandhi, one of the best-known women of the 20th century, was Prime Minister of India, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, mother of Sanjay and Rajiv Gandhi, mother-in-law of politician Sonia Gandhi.
Gandhi, Indira Priyadarshini, née Nehru (1917-1984), prime minister of India (1966-1977; 1980-1984), whose controversial political career ended with her assassination by Sikh conspirators.
Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917, in Allahabad, the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, later the first prime minister of India.
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 Indian Airports
Indira Gandhi International Airport is a major gateway to India.
Located in the national capital, Delhi, it is a vital link between India and rest of the globe.
Legend has it, Indraprastha as was known earlier, founded by...
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