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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name = Indira Gandhi<br />
|image = Indira Gandhi.jpg<br />
|office = [[List of Prime Ministers of India|3rd]] [[Prime Minister of India]]<br />
|president = [[Neelam Sanjiva Reddy]]<br />[[Zail Singh]]<br />
|term_start = 14 January 1980<br />
|term_end = 31 October 1984<br />
|predecessor = [[Charan Singh]]<br />
|successor = [[Rajiv Gandhi]]<br />
|president2 = [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]<br />[[Zakir Hussain (politician)|Zakir Hussain]]<br />[[V. V. Giri]]<br />[[Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]]<br />
|deputy2 = Morarji Desai<br />
|term_start2 = 24 January 1966<br />
|term_end2 = 24 March 1977<br />
|predecessor2 = [[Gulzarilal Nanda]] <small>(acting)</small><br />
|successor2 = Morarji Desai<br />
|office3 = [[Minister of External Affairs (India)|Minister of External Affairs]]<br />
|term_start3 = 9 March 1984<br />
|term_end3 = 31 October 1984<br />
|predecessor3 = [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]<br />
|successor3 = [[Rajiv Gandhi]]<br />
|term_start4 = 22 August 1967<br />
|term_end4 = 14 March 1969<br />
|predecessor4 = [[M. C. Chagla]]<br />
|successor4 = [[Dinesh Singh]]<br />
|office5 = [[Minister of Defence (India)|Minister of Defence]]<br />
|term_start5 = 14 January 1980<br />
|term_end5 = 15 January 1982<br />
|predecessor5 = [[Chidambaram Subramaniam]]<br />
|successor5 = <br />
|term_start6 = 30 November 1975<br />
|term_end6 = 20 December 1975<br />
|predecessor6 = [[Sardar Swaran Singh]]<br />
|successor6 = [[Bansi Lal]]<br />
|office7 = [[Minister for Home Affairs (India)|Minister of Home Affairs]]<br />
|term_start7 = 27 June 1970<br />
|term_end7 = 4 February 1973<br />
|predecessor7 = [[Yashwantrao Chavan]]<br />
|successor7 = [[Uma Shankar Dikshit]]<br />
|office8 = [[Minister of Finance (India)|Minister of Finance]]<br />
|term_start8 = 16 July 1969<br />
|term_end8 = 27 June 1970<br />
|predecessor8 = [[Morarji Desai]]<br />
|successor8 = [[Yashwantrao Chavan]]<br />
|birth_date = {{birth date|1917|11|19|df=y}}<br />
|birth_name=Indira Priyadarshini Nehru<br />
|birth_place = [[Allahabad]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|1984|10|31|1917|11|19|df=y}}<br />
|death_place = [[New Delhi]], [[Delhi]], [[India]]<br />
|alma_mater = [[University of Oxford|Somerville College, Oxford]]<br />
|party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
|relations = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] (father) <br/>[[Kamala Nehru]] (mother)<br />
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|spouse = [[Feroze Gandhi]]<br />
|children = [[Rajiv Gandhi|Rajiv]]<br />[[Sanjay Gandhi|Sanjay]]<br />
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}}<br />
'''Indira Gandhi''' (19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[politician]]. She was [[Prime Minister]] of [[India]] from 1966 to 1977.She was the daughter of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], who was also Prime Minister of India. Her son, [[Rajiv Gandhi]], later became Prime Minister of India. She married [[Feroze Gandhi]], who was not related to the [[civil rights]] leader, [[Mahatma Gandhi]].<br />
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Indira Gandhi was the first woman prime minister of India. Gandhi was [[assassination|assassinated]] in 1984 at the age of 66. In 1938, Indira joined the [[Indian National Congress Party]]. After the death of [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]] in 1966, Indira Gandhi served as prime minister until India held the next [[election]]. She won that election in 1967 and became one of the first women elected to lead a [[democracy]].<br />
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Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister of India twice. She served the first time between 1966 and 1977 and the second time between 1980 and 1984.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/gandhi.html|title=Indira Gandhi|accessdate=13-10-2009|publisher=Microsoft Corporation}}</ref> She also studied at the [[University of Oxford]].<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== Other websites ==<br />
* [http://indiragandhi.in/ Official website of Indira Gandhi] <br />
* [http://indiragandhi.in/en/timeline Indira's timeline]<br />
* [http://indiragandhi.in/en/milestones Indira's Milestone]<br />
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