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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindi: [ˈɪn̪d̪ɪɾɑː ˈɡɑːn̪d̪ʱiː] ⓘ; née Indira Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and stateswoman who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.
Indira Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi (circa 1949). Arun Nehru (1944–2013), great-grandson of Nandlal Nehru. He was a politician and union minister during the 1980s. Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991), eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi. He became the 6th prime minister of India after Indira's death.
Several of the children of former prime ministers have entered politics. Two have become prime ministers themselves, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. P. V. Narasimha Rao had 8 children, the most of any prime minister. Two prime ministers – Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Narendra Modi – have had no biological children. However, Vajpayee had an ...
Feroze Jehangir Gandhi (born Feroze Jehangir Gandhi; 12 September 1912 – 8 September 1960) was an Indian freedom fighter, politician and journalist. He served as a member of the provincial parliament between 1950 and 1952, and later a member of the Lok Sabha , the Lower house of Indian parliament.
(from left to right) Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi in 1969. Gandhi was born in New Delhi, on 14 December 1946, as the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi. Like his elder brother Rajiv, Gandhi was educated at St. Columba's School, Delhi, Welham Boys' School, Dehra Dun and then at the Doon School, Dehra Dun.
The Gandhi family is the family of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi; Mahatma meaning "high souled" or "venerable" in Sanskrit; [1] the particular term 'Mahatma' was accorded Mohandas Gandhi for the first time while he was still in South Africa, and not commonly heard as titular for any other civil figure even of similarly ...
Their first child, a son, Rahul was born in 1970. In 1972, ... On 4 May 1981, Indira Gandhi presided over a meeting of the All India Congress Committee.
Sonia is the widow of Rajiv Gandhi, elder son of Indira Gandhi. She has two children, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, who both serve as Members of Parliament in the Lok Sabha. In August 2011, she underwent successful surgery for cervical cancer [87] in the United States at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York. [88]