Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (1917-1984), a prime minister of India, was the most effective and powerful politician of her day in that country. Indira Gandhi was born in the northern Indian city of Allahabad on November 19, 1917. She was the only child...

(1917–1964), prime minister of India. Indira Gandhi, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964), the first prime minister of independent India, married Feroze Gandhi, a Parsi (not related to Mohandas [Mahatma] Gandhi); their sons were Rajiv...

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindi: इंदिरा प्रियदर्शिनी गांधी) (19 November, 1917 - October 31, 1984) was the Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from...

INDIRA GANDHI, A PERSONAL AND POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY INDIRA GANDHI, A PERSONAL AND POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY. By Inder Malhotra. Hodder & Stoughton; 363 pages; 20 pounds. READING Inder Malhotra's fine biography of Indira Gandhi in the aftermath of her son Rajiv's defeat in the...

MOTHER INDIA A Political Biography Of Indira Gandhi By Pranay Gupte Robert Stewart/Scribner's. 593 pp. $30 PRANAY GUPTE, an Indian expatriate long resident in New York, has expanded upon earlier books on his native land to recount the role of the Nehru-Gandhi family...

Some assassinations within the South and Central Asian region:_ Dec. 27, 2007: Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was slain by an attacker who shot her after a campaign rally and then blew himself up._Sept. 25, 2006: Safia Amajan, women's affairs official in Afghanistan, was killed...

Indian authorities have tightened security around Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi after intelligence agencies warned she could be the target of a suicide bombing plot by Islamic militants, including al-Qaida, an official said Friday.Gandhi is one of the most powerful politicians in India, and the...