Jawaharlal Nehru summary

Indira Gandhi, born on November 19, 1917, in Allahabad, India, was India’s first female prime minister (1966–77 and 1980–84). She was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru—a key independence movement figure and India’s first prime minister (1947–64). After attending Visva-Bharati University and the

Indira Gandhi was an Indian politician who was the first female prime minister of India, serving for three consecutive terms (1966–77) and a fourth term from 1980 until she was assassinated in 1984. (Read Indira Gandhi’s 1975 Britannica essay on global underprivilege.) Indira Nehru was the only

Indian National Congress, broadly based political party of India. Founded in 1885, it dominated the Indian movement for independence from Great Britain. It subsequently formed most of India’s governments from the time of independence and often had a strong presence in many state governments. Since

Prime minister, the head of government in a country with a parliamentary or semipresidential political system. In such systems, the prime minister—literally the “first,” or most important, minister—must be able to command a continuous majority in the legislature (usually the lower house in a