Indira Gandhi was the prime minister of India between 1966 and 1977 and from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. The only child of Jawaharlal Nehru and Kamala Nehru, she remains till date, the only female Prime Minister of India.
She was educated at the University of Oxford, where she studied history, political science and economics. Post India’s independence, Indira Gandhi managed the official residence of her father and accompanied him on numerous foreign trips.
After her father’s death she was appointed as a member of the Rajya Sabha and became the Minister of information and Broadcasting in Lal Bahadur Shastri’s Cabinet. She later defeated her rival Morarji Desai and succeeded Shastri as the Prime Minister of India.
In 2020, Time Magazine named Indira Gandhi among the world’s 100 most powerful women who defined the 20th Century.
She was assassinated in 1984 while in office. Her son Rajiv Gandhi also served the country as prime minister from 1984 to 1989. Sadly, he too was assassinated in 1991.
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