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Indira Gandhi

1917 - 1984

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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (née 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. She was India's first and, to date, only female prime minister, and a central figure in Indian politics as the leader of the Indian National Congress (INC). She was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, and the mother of Rajiv Gandhi, who succeeded her as prime minister. Gandhi's cumulative tenure of 15 years and 350 days makes her the second-longest-serving Indian prime minister after her father. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Indira Gandhi is the 14th most popular politician (up from 370th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from India (up from 18th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Politician.

Indira Gandhi was the first female Prime Minister of India. She is most famous for being the first female Prime Minister of India.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Indira Gandhi ranks 14 out of 19,576. Before her are Thomas Jefferson, Louis XIV of France, Joseph Stalin, Akbar, Augustus, and Suleiman the Magnificent. After her are Vladimir Lenin, Saladin, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Kublai Khan, Qin Shi Huang, and George VI.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Indira Gandhi ranks 1. After her are John F. Kennedy, Ferdinand Marcos, Park Chung-hee, Heinrich Böll, John Fenn, Arthur C. Clarke, Rodney Robert Porter, Ilya Prigogine, Frederica of Hanover, James Rainwater, and Christian de Duve. Among people deceased in 1984, Indira Gandhi ranks 1. After her are Michel Foucault, Yuri Andropov, Richard Burton, Marvin Gaye, Paul Dirac, François Truffaut, Truman Capote, James Mason, Alfred Kastler, Tigran Petrosian, and Mohamed Naguib.

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In India

Among people born in India, Indira Gandhi ranks 2 out of 1,861. Before her are Mahatma Gandhi (1869). After her are Narendra Modi (1950), Mumtaz Mahal (1593), George Orwell (1903), Ashoka (-304), Rajneesh (1931), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Swami Vivekananda (1863), Kālidāsa (400), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), and Ramakrishna (1836).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Indira Gandhi ranks 1. After her are Narendra Modi (1950), Ashoka (-304), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), Pratibha Patil (1934), A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), Droupadi Murmu (1958), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), and Razia Sultana (1205).

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