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  Manas: History and Politics, Indira Gandhi
Gandhi's response was to declare a state of emergency, under which her political foes were imprisoned, constitutional rights abrogated, and the press placed under strict censorship.
Gandhi was assassinated, at her residence, by two of her own Sikh bodyguards, who claimed to be avenging the insult heaped upon the Sikh nation.
Gandhi acquired a formidable international reputation as a "statesman", and there is no doubt that she was extraordinarily skilled in politics.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/Independent/Indira.html   (837 words)

  
 Indira Gandhi - MSN Encarta
Gandhi’s controversial political career ended when she was assassinated by Sikh extremists.
Gandhi was born Indira Priyadarshini Nehru in Allahābād, the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru and Kamala Kaul Nehru.
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.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562528/Indira_Gandhi.html   (1441 words)

  
 Sanjay Gandhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sanjay Gandhi (December 14, 1946 - June 23, 1980) was an Indian politician of Kashmiri and Parsi heritage; he was the younger son of Feroze Gandhi and his wife Indira Gandhi.
Sanjay Gandhi's widow, Maneka Gandhi, who fell out with Indira after Sanjay's death and was famously thrown out of the Prime Minister's house, as well as Sanjay's son, Varun Gandhi, are active in politics as members of the main opposition BJP party.
Sanjay was elected to a parliamentary seat from Amethi, in Uttar Pradesh.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sanjay_Gandhi   (4442 words)

  
 rediff.com: People who Defined the Emergency
Sanjay was the 'rent-a-crowd' man for Indira to organise rallies and beat up opposition leaders and protesting students.
Sanjay was responsible for helping Sikh militants, including Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, in the initial years of militancy.
Sanjay was killed on June 23, 1980, mysteriously when a private plane he was flying crashed.
specials.rediff.com /news/2005/jun/27sld02.htm   (338 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: India
Gandhi won her seat in parliament but her future as leader appeared to be shaky.
Rajiv Gandhi was a reluctant politician, preferring the life of an airline pilot, until his brother, Sanjay, was killed in a plane crash in 1980.
Gandhi's flagging popularity was reflected at the polls in November 1989 as Congress lost its parliamentary majority, forcing Gandhi to resign as prime minister.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/india/nehru_gandhi.html   (1692 words)

  
 Rajiv Gandhi Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Rajiv Gandhi, India's sixth prime minister and general secretary of the Congress (I) party, was born on August 20, 1944, in Bombay, India.
Gandhi's early years were spent at the prime minister's residence in New Delhi where his mother served as her father's official hostess.
Gandhi proved himself as a tireless and effective campaigner in the weeks preceding the election and was widely credited, along with an improved economy, with the party's success.
www.bookrags.com /biography/rajiv-gandhi   (1307 words)

  
 Rajiv Gandhi :: Indian Leader
Rajiv's mother, Indira Gandhi, was active in India's national politics as she had by then served as the Prime Minister of India.
At that time, Indira Gandhi was re-elected as the Prime Minister and Rajiv Gandhi became her unofficial political advisor.
But in 1984, Indira Gandhi's bodyguards assassinated her and Rajiv Gandhi took over as the head of the Congress party and was sworn in as the Prime Minister.
www.ceeby.com /people/RajivGandhi.cfm   (613 words)

  
 ARK On-Line Feature Stories
Meneka Gandhi, former Minister of the Environment and widow of Sanjay Gandhi (the youngest son of India’s prime minister, Indira) runs The Sanjay Gandhi Animal Center in Delhi, India.
Gandhi’s deep concern for the plight of animals in India led her to run the Animal Welfare program, of which the Sanjay Gandhi Center is an integral part.
Gandhi and the Center workers are trying to educate India about the preservation of wildlife and the urgent need to control the population of street animals.
www.arkonline.com /world_01.html   (590 words)

  
 Life and times of Sanjay Gandhi- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This was a draconian measure and it is said that Sanjay Gandhi was responsible for much of what went wrong with the Emergency.
Sanjay was the also one of the key figures behind secretly aiding Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his militants (in 1970s) with backing from the Indira-led government at Centre.
Sanjay was cremated at the same grounds as his grandfather, first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-1150528,prtpage-1.cms   (328 words)

  
 TIME.com: Indira Gandhi's 'Crown Prince' -- Feb. 2, 1976 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Nonetheless, Sanjay Gandhi, 29, the younger son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi* and the grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, has been hitting the hustings lately as an articulate and outspoken advocate of his mother's policies.
Sanjay's political enemies—and even some of his friends—have begun to refer to him as "the crown prince." Veteran Indian politicians are treating him with the deference due a young man who happens to be the likely heir to a political dynasty.
Until his recent emergence as a public figure, Sanjay Gandhi was best known to Indians as the designer and builder of a mini-auto called the Maruti, named for the son of the Hindu god of wind.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,945506,00.html   (691 words)

  
 Indira Gandhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917, in Allahabad, the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, later the first prime minister of India.
In 1975 Gandhi was convicted of a minor infraction of the election laws during the 1971 campaign.
Gandhi placed many aspects of life in India under her strict control, and thousands of dissenters were imprisoned.
www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/gandhi.html   (521 words)

  
 The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Literature
Maneka first met Sanjay Gandhi on 14 December 1973 at a cocktail party given by her uncle Major-General Kapur (the husband of Maneka's father's sister, a renowned beauty of her time) to celebrate their son Veenu Kapur's forthcoming marriage.
Sanjay was not a restaurant- or picture-going young man and shy of being seen in public where he would be recognised; he preferred to see Maneka either in her home or bring her to his own.
Mrs Gandhi was generous in the wedding presents she gave her new daughter-in-law: twenty-one expensive sarees, two sets of gold jewellery, a lehnga, and perhaps the most precious of all, a khadi sari made out of yarn spun by her father Jawaharlal Nehru when he was in jail.
www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020210/spectrum/book5.htm   (1889 words)

  
 Indira Gandhi :: Indian Leader
Meanwhile, her eldest son, Sanjay Gandhi, ordered the removal of slum dwellings, and in an attempt to curb India's growing population, initiated a highly resented program of forced sterilization.
In the post-emergency period, as a prime minister Indira Gandhi was preoccupied by efforts to resolve the political problems in the state of Punjab.
After her death, her second son, Rajiv Gandhi, was sworn in as head of the Congress party and Prime Minister.
www.ceeby.com /people/IndiraGandhi.cfm   (1575 words)

  
 The Hindu : The unexorcised ghost of Sanjay Gandhi
That Sanjay Gandhi tradition of indifference to the minorities's sensitivities was carried forward gloriously in the 1984 election when the ``bharat mata in danger'' warcry mesmerised an electorate already traumatised by Indira Gandhi's assassination and the anti-Sikh riots.
Advani, merely finessed on that Sanjay Gandhi tradition, a cultivated habit that produced the denouement on December 6, 1992.
Advani has to insist that the charges against him in the ``Ayodhya'' case are of a different kind, then who is to prevent a Rabri Devi from refusing to heed the moral injunction of a chargesheet in a case of excessive zeal of the ``law'' in Patna.
www.hinduonnet.com /2000/06/14/stories/05142523.htm   (1046 words)

  
 HardNews - When the days went black
It was the immediate, opportunistic provocation for Indira Gandhi to take the drastic step that went on to redefine Indian democracy, and her role in trying to bring it low.
Sanjay had prevailed upon Indira Gandhi to not give up her seat of power.
Sanjay Gandhi wanted the rally speech by Indira Gandhi to be broadcast live over the government media, but the then minister of state, Inder Kumar Gujral, refused to allow the government media to be utilised for party purposes.
www.hardnewsmedia.com /june05/rewind.php   (716 words)

  
 rediff.com: The Rediff Interview/ P N Dhar
Or was it an aberration caused by Indira Gandhi?
Indira Gandhi had not only neglected her filial duty, she had done something worse; she had, according to JP, come under the influence of Moscow through her liaison with the CPI after the 1969 split in the Congress party.
Indira Gandhi, for her part, had some respect for JP as a human being, but not a great deal for his ideas, which she thought were woolly and often irresponsible.
www.rediff.com /news/2000/jul/06inter.htm   (1830 words)

  
 Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Sanjay Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary, National Park in Sanjay Gandhi,Wildlife Sanctuary in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Sanjay Gandhi National Park or the Borivali National Park is located in Borivali to the east of the Thane district and at distance of 40 km north from Mumbai.
Kanheri or Kanhasela, the biggest Buddhist monastic establishment on the Konkan coast, is situated in the heart of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park.
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus is at a distance of 40 km from the Sanjay Gandhi National Park.
www.wildlifeindiatours.com /travel/sanjay-gandhi.html   (851 words)

  
 News Headings
An unbelievable 54 quintals of rose petals were strewn all along the path of Mrs Sonia Gandhi as she arrived here this afternoon to file her nomination papers from the Amethi parliamentary constituency — a traditional stronghold of the Nehru-Gandhi family and also of the 115-year-old Congress party.
Mrs Gandhi, who is also known among Congress circles the "bahurani" of Amethi, was accompanied by her son Mr Rahul Gandhi, the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) chief, Mr Salman Khursheed, Mr Ram Narain Yadav, her personal secretary Mr V. George and a lawyer.
Mrs Gandhi’s rival from the BJP is from among the Thakurs.
www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99sep11/head.htm   (1006 words)

  
 Sonia Gandhi Fact-File by Rajinder Puri
Mr RK Dhawan was rehabilitated by Rajiv Gandhi.
Gandhi now is no longer the daughter-in-law or wife of a prime minister.
Gandhi was not personally connected to the infamous Bofors deal negotiated by Rajiv Gandhi as Prime Minister.
www.boloji.com /myword/mw018.htm   (1378 words)

  
 The Hindu : Sanjay Gandhi syndrome resurrected
The only difference is that while Sanjay Gandhi never occupied a constitutional office and functioned as an extra-constitutional authority during the Emergency, Mr.
Modi is the newly-incarnated Sanjay Gandhi whose "constitutional" excesses — or rather a wilful non-performance of constitutional obligations — must be condoned by everyone, from the Prime Minister down to the Sangh Parivar's professional pamphleteers.
Then, there is a remarkable similarity in the pattern of the defence mounted by the Congress crowd for Sanjay Gandhi and the BJP party machinery for Mr.
www.hindu.com /2002/04/03/stories/2002040300281000.htm   (1033 words)

  
 Nehru Gandhi Legacy
Feroze Gandhi, is one of the most illustrious parliamentarians that the country has produced after Independence.
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)

  
 Sanjay Dutt's tryst with Gandhi : Sanjay Dutt, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Gandhigiri : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
Sanjay Dutt: My father and mother have been Gandhians and we have been raised by the principles of Gandhiji.
Sanjay Dutt: To be honest, I do not believe in that at all.
I knew Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation but I really didn’t know what he preached in spite of being an Indian citizen.
www.ibnlive.com /news/how-munna-introduced-gandhi-to-sanju/22966-8.html   (829 words)

  
 Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia
Rahul and Priyanka are the children of Indira Gandhi's elder son Rajiv Gandhi, who became prime minister in 1984 after Indira's assassination.
After Sanjay's death in June 1980, Maneka believed that as his widow she was his rightful heir and expected the family to promote her political ambitions.
Maneka has always resented Sonia's meteoric rise in status from one of the wife of a pilot to that of the wife of India's prime minister and subsequently to that of the president of the Congress party.
www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/FB25Df04.html   (998 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He apprenticed at Rolls Royce, where his lack of discipline provoked a flood of anguished correspondence between his mother and the Indian high commission in London, who were naturally worried about the repercussions of the son’s waywardness on the reputation of the prime minister.
By the time the Emergency ended, Sanjay Gandhi had discarded any pretence of his being a maker of cars.
It was Indira Gandhi who created the dynasty; she brought her sons into the Congress, and made it clear to all, within and outside the party, that she expected them to succeed her.
www.telegraphindia.com /1040501/asp/opinion/story_3183271.asp   (1350 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 322
Top opposition leader and Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi are in the fray from the two constituencies as Rahul is making his electoral debut.
Way back in 1977, Rahul's late uncle Sanjay Gandhi, who had made debut in politics in 1973, was defeated from Amethi in 1977 by Bharatiya Lok Dal's Ravindra Pratap Singh riding a tremendous anti-Congress wave after the emergency.
Three years later, Sanjay avenged his defeat and after his death it was his brother Rajiv who won from here in 1984, 1989 and 1991 defeating Sharad Yadav, at present Indian Food Minister, Sanjay's wife Maneka Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Rajmohan Gandhi.
www.thedailystar.net /2004/04/25/d40425130486.htm   (686 words)

  
 SOLUTIONFUTURES : Rahul Gandhi is Sanjay Joshi of Congress, solutionfutures blogs on sulekha, Business blogs, ...
In contrast to Priyanka's assertiveness, one of her only two competitor's to the Gandhi mantle, her younger brother Rahul displays an awkwardness and the type of submissive behavior, which does not a leader make.
A frustrated Gandhi family had then pulled strings at Harvard, where a quota of seats is always available for a price to the rich and famous.
Gandhi was in residence as an undergraduate at Cambridge for three years, from 1962 until 1965; his subject of study was Mechanical Sciences.
www.sulekha.com /blogs/blogdisplay.aspx?cid=40960   (2074 words)

  
 archive: When Sonia violated Fera 'designing' road rollers - Part I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This private limited company was set up by her along with Sanjay Gandhi to provide technical know-how for the design, manufacture and assembly of "a wholly indigenous motor car".
She was to get a salary of Rs 2000 per month and one per cent commission on the net profits of the company subject to a limit of 50 per cent of her annual salary plus perquisites.
She entered into an agreement with this company on September 28, 1974 in regard to her appointment as its MD. But this agreement was not implemented and she did not draw any salary as MD of this company.
www.hvk.org /articles/0599/55.html   (1427 words)

  
 Politics of dynasty
I objected to Sanjay’s emergence on principle and would have resented his rise even if he had not been the sort of primitive political animal he later revealed himself to be.
Mrs Gandhi, of course, resigned immediately and Sanjay went on to issue a surprisingly graceful statement announcing his retirement from politics and regretting any harm that his actions may have caused to his party.
Simultaneously, it was eagerly supporting Maneka Gandhi (she stood as combined opposition candidate against Rajiv) unaware of the irony.
www.mid-day.com /columns/vir_sanghvi/2004/february/77003.htm   (1411 words)

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