• Indira Gandhi was born Indira Priyadarshini Nehru on 19 November 1917, in Allahabad, British India, to Jawaharlal Nehru and Kamala Nehru.
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  • Against her father's objection, Indira Gandhi married Feroze Gandhi in 1941. Feroze and Indira Gandhi had two children, Rajiv, and Sanjay Gandhi.
  • Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi, born in Allahabad on November 19, 1917, was the first woman Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 to 1984.
  • Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India in the early 1980s, feared the growing power of the charismatic Sikh preacher and militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.
  • But Indira Gandhi showed extraordinary political skills and tenacity and elbowed the Congress dons — Kamaraj, Morarji Desai, and others — out of power.
  • After his death in 1964, Lal Bahadur Shastri took over. And then in 1966, Indira Gandhi was elected leader of the Congress.
  • Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) served as India’s first female prime minister from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in October 1984.
  • In the year 1959, the Indian National Congress elected Indira Gandhi as the president and also she served as one of the political advisors of Jawaharlal Nehru.
  • Indira Gandhi left behind her a lasting political legacy and her family became one of the most prominent political names in India.