Nov. 19, 1917- Oct.

31, 1984

Background
Nehru Family
1947-64:
Chief of Staff
1959: Congress
1966: Succeeds Shastri
1966-77
1980-84

Contribution
- Foreign Policy: South
Asia, China, USSR
- Green Revolution
- 1971 War
- Nuclear Weapons:
1967 to 1974
- Darkest age: 1975 1977

Operation
Bluestar
Sikh separatists:
Bhindranwale
3 to 8 June 1984:
Golden Temple
Assassination
Riots and attacks

Only man in her cabinet

Compared to Kali
2001: Greatest Indian
Prime Minister in a poll
organized by India Today.
1999: Woman of the
Millennium by BBC