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	Jawaharlal Nehru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nehru lived alone initially, but was later joined by his daughter Indira Gandhi, who despite having a young family of her own felt a need to take care of her father's personal needs.
		The Nehru family is of Kashmiri lineage and of the Saraswat Brahmins caste.
		Jawaharlal Nehru was born on November 14, 1889, to Swaroop Rani, the wife of Motilal Nehru, a wealthy Allahabad-based barrister and political leader himself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nehru (4809 words)

	Nehru-Gandhi family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nehru promoted his only child, Indira Gandhi (1917-84) (who acquired this surname through her marriage to Feroze Gandhi) to his Cabinet, and in 1966, following the brief leadership of Lal Bahadur Shastri, she became Prime Minister, holding the position until her defeat in the 1977 elections.
		A fourth member of the family, Sonia Gandhi, is President of the Congress party and was Leader of the Opposition from 1999-2004.
		Nehru's sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900-1990) was also prominent in Congress politics and was an Indian diplomat, serving as President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1953.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nehru-Gandhi_family (750 words)

	Mahatma Gandhi - Open Encyclopedia
		Gandhi was dismayed to see the prevalent denial of civil liberties and political rights to Indian immigrants and began protesting and lobbying against legal and racial discrimination against Indians in South Africa.
		Gandhi translated Tolstoy's "Letter to a Hindu" [1] which was written in 1908 in response to aggressive Indian nationalists, and the two corresponded until Tolstoy's death in 1910.
		Gandhi and his followers followed the practice of weaving their own cloth using a spinning-wheel and wearing a dress made of that.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Mohandas_Gandhi (2383 words)

	Nehru-Khan-Gandhi dynasty
		Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917 to Jawaharlal and Kamala Nehru.
		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, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, became prime minister of India in 1966.
	www.vepachedu.org /Nehrudynasty.html (693 words)

	Indira Gandhi
		Gandhi and her Congress (I) Party, campaigning on the slogan "Elect a Government that Works," won a major victory, and Gandhi resumed the office of prime minister.
		Nehru died in 1964, and Lal Bahadur Shastri came in the position of Prime minister.
		Late Mrs.Indira Gandhi was the first woman Prime minister of India.She served as the Prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 to 1984.
	vee.8k.com /indira.html (929 words)

	globalinfo.org - May 18, INDIA (#29950)
		That the BJP's real target was the Nehru-Gandhi family and not just Sonia became apparent when the Congress party announced that her son Rahul Gandhi, representing the next generation of the political dynasty, would contest the election.
		Her family after all has given India three prime ministers - Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, his daughter Indira Gandhi, and her husband.
		That Sonia Gandhi's aim in fighting the elections was limited to defeating the ruling, pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its sectarian politics was apparent enough in a rare, but remarkably candid, interview that the Italian-born custodian of the Nehru-Gandhi legacy gave to the NDTV 24x7 news channel weeks before the April/May election.
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=29950 (1387 words)

	BBC NEWS South Asia Gandhi family member defects
		Varun Gandhi's decision to join the BJP formalises a political split in the family which ruled India and led the Congress party for nearly 36 years.
		Varun Gandhi's move is significant, because his family have long been linked with the Congress party.
		Varun Gandhi is the grandson of former Congress prime minister Indira Gandhi.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/3493477.stm (373 words)

	Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia
		The exchanges center on the the Nehru-Gandhi family and the serious possibility of Rahul and his sister Priyanka, both in their early 30s and representing the fourth generation of the the family, contesting the elections and laying claim to the prime minister's job.
		Sonia Gandhi inherited the Nehru-Gandhi political mantle after her charismatic husband and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991 by a suicide bomber sent by the Sri Lankan Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
		Sonia Gandhi's claim to be prime minister appears to have been successfully thwarted by a sustained campaign mounted by the BJP harping on the supposed unsuitability of a person of foreign origin ruling the country during key provincial elections in November.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/FB04Df04.html (1106 words)

	Indira Gandhi
		Indira Gandhi (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.
		Sikh alienation was deep and had dramatic consequences: on October 31, 1984, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards, one of whom was fatally shot and the other subsequently (1988) sentenced to death by hanging.
		She was not related to Mahatma Gandhi; she took her last name from her husband Feroze Gandhi, who changed his surname to "Gandhi" for political reasons.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/i/in/indira_gandhi.html (919 words)

	Congress(I)'s new hope
		Rahul Gandhi, a member of the fifth generation of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, has decided to take the plunge into politics and contest the Lok Sabha polls from Amethi.
		While Rahul Gandhi did not have the grades to make it to Delhi's St. Stephens College, he was admitted in the sports quota for his shooting skills.
		After that Rahul Gandhi joined the London office of Monitor, a leading consultancy firm set up by Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School, where he is reported to have worked in projects relating to technology and communication.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2108/stories/20040423004503400.htm (688 words)

	`The Nehru-Gandhi family was Brahmin'
		As Saint Bhindranwale revealed, Indira Gandhi was the pure-blooded Brahmin daughter of Pandit Nehru
		Pandit Nehru was the Brahmin Founding-Father of the Indian Union, the man responsible for the modern Brahmin Raj
		Pandit Nehru the Fanatic Brahmin died of Syphilis !
	www.dalitstan.org /journal/brahman/bra001/brah0107.html (450 words)

	BBC News Analysis India's ruling dynasty
		The Nehru-Gandhi family is not related to the revered Mahatma Gandhi, who led the struggle against the British.
		But she pointedly retained the Gandhi family name after her marriage to Robert Vadra, a jewellery designer and exporter.
		Nehru's daughter, Indira, became a Gandhi through marriage.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/analysis/46883.stm (232 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: T V R Shenoy on poverty and the Congress
		Why is it that not a single Nehru-Gandhi family head has chanced his or her luck with Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, or Calcutta?
		(This is not a very good omen; Indira Gandhi entered politics as Pandit Nehru's daughter, her downfall began in 1977 when she was perceived as Sanjay's mother.) But the whole sordid drama drives home the point that the Congress has little to commend itself except for the dynasty.
		The clan claims Allahabad as its home but no senior Nehru-Gandhi has stood before the politically sophisticated voters of that ancient city.
	www.rediff.com /news/1999/sep/03flip.htm (806 words)

	Rahul Gandhi stars in AICC meet
		People who are blind to the sacrifice and contribution of Gandhi family tend to forget that the millions of Indians living in villages adore them.People...
		Amethi Congress MP and party president Sonia Gandhi's son Rahul was the cynosure of all eyes on Saturday at the All-India Congress Committee meeting in New Delhi's Talkatora Stadium.
		The session was dedicated to Rajiv Gandhi's memory and it was very clear that the party saw it as an opportunity to anoint Rahul his heir apparent.
	in.rediff.com /news/2004/aug/21rahul.htm (607 words)

	Indian American Center for Political Awareness
		When Rahul Gandhi took oath as a member of Parliament on June 3, he became the eighth member of the family to do so.
		The seven others were: Rahul’s great-grandfather and India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru; his grandmother Indira Gandhi, also a former prime minister; his grandfather Feroze Gandhi; his uncle Sanjay Gandhi; his father Rajiv Gandhi, another former prime minister; his mother and Congress Party President Gandhi; and his estranged aunt Maneka Gandhi.
		And his cousin Varun, Maneka Gandhi’s son, who campaigned for the BJP in the recent elections, did not contest only because he is not yet 25, which is the required minimum age to run for election.
	www.iacfpa.org /p_news/nit/iacpa-archieve/delhidurbar/del070604-of.html (325 words)

	The Hindu : National / Elections 2004 : Amethi nurses a soft corner for India's `first family'
		With the Nehru-Gandhi family since 1980, except the 12th Lok Sabha when the Raja of Amethi and then Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, Sanjay Singh, wrested it from the hands of family loyalist, Satish Sharma, the other parties appear to have conceded Amethi to the Nehru-Gandhi family.
		The constituency is indebted to the Nehru-Gandhi family, and has no qualms admitting it.
		Both lost the elections, and now the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) wants the citizens of Amethi and Rae Bareli to repeat the 1977 feat by defeating another mother-son pair from the Nehru-Gandhi family.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2004/04/25/stories/2004042502001300.htm (650 words)

	Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia
		Relations between Maneka and the rest of the family deteriorated seriously and she was eventually thrown out of the Nehru-Gandhi household.
		Like the Kennedy clan in the United States, the Nehru-Gandhi family has provided many leaders - three of India's 12 prime ministers have come from this family and its members are charismatic.
		Varun's decision to join the BJP means that Indira Gandhi's grandchildren will be campaigning for rival political parties - Varun for the BJP and Rahul and Priyanka for the Congress, which their mother Sonia now leads.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/FB25Df04.html (998 words)

	BJP News Report:"Their Sacrifices : Chapter from Tomorrow's Textbooks" -Arun Shourie
		These are: All the sacrifices made' were made by the Nehru-Gandhi Family, and it is because of those sacrifices that the country has risen, to the heights it has; second, that no one else has made or makes sacrifices and that is why the country is on the verge of breaking into fragments.
		With the passing of the Father, the Son became the Father, and with the coming of the Daughter, the Nehru-Nehru Family came to be known as the Nehru-Gandhi Family.
		And then, because his dear brother had sacrificed his life for that ancient love of the Nehrus, aviation, Rajiv sacrificed his quiet family life, his career in aviation and stepped forth to help Mummy-so beleaguered and alone at the pinnacle.
	www.bjp.org /news/arun.htm (1456 words)

	Nehru Gandhi Legacy
		This fearless freedom fighter was also the son-in-law of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, husband of Indira Gandhi, and father of Rajiv Gandhi.
		One of the most controversial political figures of his times, Sanjay Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru and son of Mrs.
		Sanjay who refused to accept inheritance of the family greatness had by the age of 33 become the symbol of the rising generation with his courage and daring.
	vee.8k.com /nehrulegacy.html (503 words)

	South Asia Monitor
		Rao's example is more relevant since by then the principle that the Nehru-Gandhi family was the only legitimate inheritor of the Congress legacy had been clearly established.
		His Congress colleagues leave no one in any doubt that he is but a caretaker for the Gandhi family.
		He cannot live down the fact that when the Cabinet met after Indira Gandhi's assassination he differed with the consensus that Rajiv Gandhi be immediately sworn in, and suggested that for the sake of propriety it might be wiser to install someone already in government as interim prime minister.
	www.southasiamonitor.org /opinion/2005/may/11v1.shtml (1007 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		While the Bharatiya Janata Party is full of fanatic elements, the Congress continues to look up to the Nehru-Gandhi family.
		Sonia Gandhi was forced to join politics in spite of her reluctance to have anything to do with what claimed both her husband and mother-in-law.
		If people are not willing to banish the idea that their leader should belong to a particular family, then it is best to resign ourselves to the perpetuation of dynastic rule.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040205/asp/opinion/story_2851952.asp (926 words)

	A Family Affair
		Having exerted political influence from behind the scenes, Sonia Gandhi must now come center stage to test her claim as the inheritor of the family legacy.
		Although the survey was done before Sonia Gandhi announced her decision to enter active politics, she finished second after Atal Bihari Vajpayee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the people's choice for prime minister.
		Congress loyalists are counting on Sonia Gandhi, 51, to breathe new life into the party, which has been rudderless since suffering a painful defeat in parliamentary elections 19 months ago.
	time.com /time/magazine/1998/int/980112/asia.a_family_affair_.on21.html (852 words)

	The Hindu : Other States / Uttar Pradesh News : Amitabh Bachchan "deeply hurt" by media reports
		Actor Amitabh Bachchan today took exception to the reported remarks by Congress MP, Rahul Gandhi, about the comments allegedly made by his wife and actress Jaya Bachchan regarding the ties between the Bachchans and the Nehru-Gandhi family.
		Bachchan said that relations between the two families had been on a "a strong emotional ground" since the days of the country's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and his father and poet Harivanshrai Bachchan, and he was "pained" that the issue was being scrutinised by the media and others.
		Bachchan said that it was regretful that "family matters" were "needlessly being scrutinised by the media and debated by the members and well-wishers of the two families."
	www.hinduonnet.com /2004/10/16/stories/2004101611000500.htm (248 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Transcript of the Vishwajit Prithvijit Singh Chat
		Rao: Shrimati Sonia Gandhi represents the traditions of the Nehru Gandhi family and the 113-year old Congress party.
		Mrs Gandhi is campaigning for the Congress party solely to give strength to the ideals of her late husband and to give strength to the political party headed by her late husband.
		Shrimati Sonia Gandhi has shown by her behaviour and actions after the death of her husband that she is living her life as a traditional Indian woman.
	www.rediff.com /chat/vpschat.htm (2285 words)

	Bahrain Tribune Daily Newspaper, Bahrain
		The Gandhi family — the focus of fascination in India similar to the royal family in Britain or the Kennedy’s in the United States — have had their squabbles in the past.
		Family is different from politics,” Varun said of his cousins.
		Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s first prime minister, governed for 17 years; his iron-fisted daughter Indira ruled for 16 years before being assassinated in 1984.
	www.bahraintribune.com /ArticleDetail.asp?CategoryId=3&ArticleId=29518 (1198 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Gandhi heirs show interest in politics
		Their family is unrelated to the country's most famous Gandhi, Mohandas K. Gandhi, the pacifist independence leader.
		Priyanka and Rahul's father was Rajiv Gandhi, the former prime minister killed by a suicide bomber in 1991.
		He was the son of Indira Gandhi, the strongwoman of Indian politics who was assassinated by her own bodyguards in 1984.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/01/30/gandhi_heirs_show_interest_in_politics (731 words)

	Turna Ray on Sonia Gandhi on National Review Online
		Had Sonia Gandhi accepted the position of India's prime minister after the Congress Party recently defeated the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2004 elections, four generations of the Nehru-Gandhi family would have ruled India since its independence from Great Britain in 1947.
		Beyond titles of power and placards of honor, as a Gandhi, Sonia has a larger duty — to uphold, and if need be, to restore, the family's historic legacy in the hearts and minds of the Indian people.
		Sonia had never wanted to be prime minister, according to longtime Gandhi family adviser Rajiv Desai.
	nationalreview.com /comment/ray200406240925.asp (1881 words)

	15020160.htm
		It is her family that has made sacrifices for the growth of India.
		She said that her family is attached to the Congress and the people of India.
		After the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, he expressed his opinion that Sonia Gandhi should become the leader of the Congress(I).
	www.thehindu.com /fline/fl1502/15020160.htm (1061 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		The most famous figure to have profited from this dynastic tendency in Indian politics was Indira Gandhi, who was Prime Minister for two periods, between 1966 and 1977 and then, again, from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.
		Priyanka's father, the late Rajiv Gandhi, who was also assassinated, in 1991, former Prime Minister, as well, like his mother, Indira Gandhi, used to represent their particular constituency.
		Bose: I think that speculation about the entry of Sonia Gandhi into Indian politics, as the leader of the Congress Party, which is still the largest opposition party in the country, and over the prospective participation of Priyanka, Sonia Gandhi's daughter, is highly exaggerated.
	www.fathom.com /feature/122529 (1788 words)

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