Spouse of the prime minister of India

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{{Politics of India}}
The '''spouse of the prime minister of India''' is the wife or husband of the [[Prime Minister of India|prime minister of India]]. The term "First Spouse" is used to refer to either the spouse of the prime minister or the president.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} The prime minister's spouse does not have an officially defined role. According to protocol, they attend social functions and gatherings at home and overseas, but have no participatory role.<ref name = "doval" />

To date there have been 10 women and one man who have been married to prime ministers whilst in office. India has also had one bachelor, one estranged, one widow, and two widower prime ministers.

== List ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|- style="background:#cccccc"
!S. No.
!Portrait
! Name
! Date of birth
! Date of marriage
! Prime Minister
! Tenure began
! Tenure ended
! Date of death and age
|-
| –
|[[File:Kamala Nehru.jpg|80px]]
|[[Kamala Nehru]]{{efn|Kamala Nehru, wife of Jawaharlal Nehru, died in 1936. Nehru's daughter [[Indira Gandhi]] served as a hostess during his tenure.<ref name = "doval" />}}
| 1 August 1899
| 1916
|[[Jawaharlal Nehru]]
| 15 August 1947
| 27 May 1964
| 28 February 1936
|-
| rowspan="2" | –
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | Lakshmi Nanda
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |[[Gulzarilal Nanda]] (''acting'')
| 27 May 1964
| 9 June 1964
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| 11 January 1966
| 24 January 1966
|-
| 1
|
|[[Lalita Shastri]]
| 11 January 1910
| 16 May 1928
|[[Lal Bahadur Shastri]]
| 9 June 1964
| 11 January 1966
| 13 April 1993
|-
| rowspan="2" | –
| rowspan="2" |[[File:Feroze Gandhi before 1950s.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Feroze Gandhi]] {{efn|Feroze Gandhi, husband of Indira Gandhi, died in 1960. Her son, [[Sanjay Gandhi]], served as host during her tenure.}}
| rowspan="2" | 12 September 1912
| rowspan="2" | March 1942
| rowspan="2" |[[Indira Gandhi]]
| 24 January 1966
| 24 March 1977
| rowspan="2" | 8 September 1960
|-
| 14 January 1980
| 31 October 1984
|-
| 2
|
| Gujraben Desai
|
| 1911
|[[Morarji Desai]]
| 24 March 1977
| 28 July 1979
|
|-
| 3
|
| Gayatri Singh
| 5 December 1905
|
|[[Charan Singh]]
| 28 July 1979
| 14 January 1980
| 10 May 2002
|-
| 4
|[[File:Sonia Gandhi (cropped).jpg|80px]]
|[[Sonia Gandhi]]
|{{birth date|df=yes|1946|12|09}}
| 1968
|[[Rajiv Gandhi]]
| 31 October 1984
| 2 December 1989
|
|-
| 5
|
| Sita Kumari Singh
|
|
|[[Vishwanath Pratap Singh]]
| 2 December 1989
| 10 November 1990
|
|-
| 6
|
| Duja Devi
|
|
|[[Chandra Shekhar]]
| 10 November 1990
| 21 June 1991
|
|-
| –
|
| Satyamma Rao{{efn|Satyamma Rao, the wife of P. V. Narasimha Rao, died in 1970. No known hostess has served during Rao's term.}}
|
|
|[[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]
| 21 June 1991
| 16 May 1996
| 1 July 1970
|-
| rowspan="2" | –
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |''unmarried''{{efn|Vajpayee's foster daughter Namita Kaul Bhattacharya served as the hostess during official functions.<ref name = "doval">{{Cite web|title = India's missing first spouses|url = http://www.livemint.com/Politics/jg29IQVVdQQ9S4PLH8zJyK/Indias-missing-first-spouses.html|website = Live Mint|access-date = 2015-10-25|first = Nikita|last = Doval|date = 2015-08-21}}</ref>}}
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |[[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
| 16 May 1996
| 1 June 1996
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| 19 March 1998
| 19 May 2004
|-
| 7
|
| Chennamma Deve Gowda
|
|
|[[H. D. Deve Gowda]]
| 1 June 1996
| 21 April 1997
|
|-
| 8
|
| Sheila Gujral
| 24 January 1924
| 26 May 1945
|[[Inder Kumar Gujral]]
| 21 April 1997
| 19 March 1998
| 11 July 2011<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sheila-gujral-passes-away/article2219383.ece|title=Sheila Gujral passes away|date=2011-07-12|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-11-10|others=PTI|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>
|-
| 9
|[[File:New Delhi on November 06, 2012. Smt. Gursharan Kaur.jpg|80px]]
|[[Gursharan Kaur]]
| 13 September 1937
| 1958
|[[Manmohan Singh]]
| 22 May 2004
| 26 May 2014
|
|-
| 10
|[[File:Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi painted.jpg|80px]]
|[[Jashodaben Modi]] (''estranged'')
| January 1952
| 1968
|[[Narendra Modi]]
| 26 May 2014
|''Incumbent''
|
|}

==See also==
* [[List of prime ministers of India]]
* [[First Ladies and Gentlemen of India]]
* [[Spouse of the vice president of India]]

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Prime Ministers of India}}
{{First ladies and gentlemen}}

[[Category:Spouses of prime ministers of India|*]]
[[Category:Lists of Indian people]]
[[Category:Lists of spouses of national leaders|India]]
[[Category:India politics-related lists]]
[[Category:1946 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Lists relating to prime ministers of India]]

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