Indira Gandhi | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-16

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Indira Gandhi


00:02:37 1 Early life and career
00:07:36 2 First term as Prime Minister between 1966 and 1977
00:08:16 2.1 First year
00:08:46 2.2 1967–1971
00:10:48 2.3 1971–1977
00:13:00 2.3.1 Verdict on electoral malpractice
00:15:34 2.3.2 State of Emergency (1975–1977)
00:16:16 2.3.3 Rule by decree
00:17:38 2.3.4 Rise of Sanjay
00:18:29 3 1977 election and opposition years
00:20:29 3.1 In opposition and return to power
00:23:01 4 1980 elections and third term
00:24:09 4.1 Operation Blue Star
00:26:57 4.2 Assassination
00:29:49 5 Foreign relations
00:30:05 5.1 South Asia
00:35:02 5.2 Middle East
00:38:14 5.3 Asia-Pacific
00:39:38 5.4 Africa
00:42:20 5.5 The Commonwealth
00:43:09 5.6 The Non-aligned Movement
00:44:00 5.7 Western Europe
00:44:32 5.8 Soviet Union
00:45:49 5.9 United States
00:46:50 6 Economic policy
00:50:54 6.1 Green Revolution and the Fourth Five-Year Plan
00:55:24 6.2 State of Emergency and the Fifth Five-Year Plan
00:56:58 6.3 Operation Forward and the Sixth Five-Year Plan
00:58:32 6.4 Inflation and unemployment
01:00:19 7 Domestic policy
01:00:28 7.1 Nationalisation
01:03:04 7.2 Administration
01:04:50 7.3 Social reform
01:08:04 7.4 Language policy
01:09:06 7.5 National security
01:11:04 7.6 Nuclear Program of India
01:12:58 8 Family, personal life and outlook
01:14:32 9 Views on women
01:19:38 10 Awards
01:20:10 11 Legacy
01:22:09 12 Posthumous honours
01:23:17 13 See also



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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindustani: [ˈɪnːdɪrə ˈɡaːndʱi] (listen); née Nehru; November 19, 1917 – October 31, 1984), was an Indian politician, stateswoman and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was the first and, to date, the only female Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. Despite her surname Gandhi, she is not related to the family of Mahatma Gandhi; Gandhi is a common surname in Gujarat. She served as Prime Minister from January 1966 to March 1977 and again from January 1980 until her assassination in October 1984, making her the second longest-serving Indian Prime Minister after her father.Gandhi served as her father's personal assistant and hostess during his tenure as Prime Minister between 1947 and 1964. She was elected President of the Indian National Congress in 1959. Upon her father's death in 1964 she was appointed as a member of the Rajya Sabha (upper house) and became a member of Lal Bahadur Shastri's cabinet as Minister of Information and Broadcasting. In the Congress Party's parliamentary leadership election held in early 1966 (upon the death of Shastri), she defeated her rival Morarji Desai, to become leader, and thus succeeded Shastri as Prime Minister of India.
As Prime Minister, Gandhi was known for her political intransigency and unprecedented centralisation of power. She went to war with Pakistan in support of the independence movement and war of independence in East Pakistan, which resulted in an Indian victory and the creation of Bangladesh, as well as increasing India's influence to the point where it became the regional hegemon of South Asia. Citing fissiparous tendencies and in response to a call for revolution, Gandhi instituted a state of emergency from 1975 to 1977 where basic civil liberties were suspended and the press was censored. Widespread atrocities were carried out during the emergency. In 1980, she returned to power after free and fair elections. After Operation Blue Star, she was assassinated by her own bodyguards and Sikh nationalists on 31 October 1984. The assassins, Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, were both shot by other security guards. Satwant Singh recovered from his injuries and was executed after being convicted of murder.
In 1999, Indira Gandhi was named "Woman of the Millennium" in an online poll organised by the BBC.