Indira Gandhi
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Guide Note: Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 to 1984.
Fast Facts:
- Born: November 19, 1917
- Died: October 31, 1984
- Daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru
- Married: Feroze Gandhi
- First Female prime minister of India
The Mahalo Top 7
- Wikipedia: Indira Gandhi
- Kings College: Indira Gandhi
- UCLA: History and Politics: Indira Gandhi
- Rediff: "What if Indira Gandhi was Alive Today?" (2007)
- Yahoo! News: "Indira Gandhi Wanted Indo-US Ties on 'Equal Basis'" (2007)
- BBC News: "Nixon's Dislike of 'Witch' Indira" (2005)
- AsiaSource: "Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)" (1988)
Indira Gandhi Background and Profiles
Nuclear Program
- Wikipedia: Smiling Buddha
- Nuclear Weapon Archive: India's Nuclear Weapons Program
- George Washington University: India and Pakistan: On the Nuclear Threshold
- Brookings Institution: "Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in South Asia" (1998)
Green Revolution
- Wikipedia: Green Revolution in India
- Country Studies: The Green Revolution
- The Hindu: "India's Extinct Green Prime Ministers" (2005)
- Rediff: "Indira Gandhi Canal Sparks Green Revolution in Rajasthan" (1997)
Indian Emergency
- Wikipedia: The Emergency
- AsiaMedia: The Indian Emergency of 1975-77
- The Hindu Business Line: "Emergency: Memories of the Dark Midnight" (2005)
- The Hindu: "Experiment with Autocracy" (2002)
- Indian Express: "Emergency: Darkest Hour in India's Judicial History" (2000)
- TIME: "Indira Gandhi's Dictatorship Digs In" (1975)
Operation Blue Star
- Wikipedia: Operation Blue Star and 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots
- The Times of India: 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots
- BBC News: "Flashbacks - Golden Temple Attack" (2004)
- The Sikh Times: "The New York Times on Operation Blue Star" (2004)
- Rediff: "Operation Blue Star 20 Years On" (2004)
- Rediff: "Anti-Sikh Riots a Pogrom" (2001)
Assassination and Legacy
- BBC News: "Indira Gandhi's Legacy" (2004)
- India Today: "Who Shaped India: Indira Gandhi" (2002)
- New York Times: "A Leader of Will and Force, Indira Gandhi, Left Her Own Imprint on India" (1984)
- TIME: "Death in the Garden" (1984)
Indira Gandhi Images and Media
- Google Image Search: Indira Gandhi
- Yahoo! Image Search: Indira Gandhi
- Live Search Images: Indira Gandhi
- Flickr: Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi Books and Research
- Google Books Search: Indira Gandhi
- Standford University: "The Perils of Proliferation in South Asia" (2001) (87KB)
- Amazon: Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
Indira Gandhi Blogs and Message Boards
- World Affairs Board: Kissinger Salute to ‘Strong’ Man in Indira
- The Guardian: Comment is Free: States of Emergency
- Mumbai Mirror: The Tragic Tale of Bhuttos & Gandhis
- Churumuri: Why Young Indians in the West Admire Modi
Indira Gandhi Timeline
- 1917: November 19, Indira Priyadarshini is born
- 1930: Indira helps found the Vanara Sena
- 1936: Indira's mother, Kamala Nehru dies of tuberculosis
- 1942: Indira Priyadarshini marries Feroze Gandhi
- 1944: May 21, Gives birth to Rajiv Gandhi
- 1946: December 14, Gives birth to Sanjay Gandhi
- 1960: September 8, Feroze Gandhi dies
- 1966: Indira Gandhi is elected as the first female Prime Minister of India
- 1966-1970: Indira initiates agricultural reforms, known as the Green Revolution
- 1971: Gandhi runs for reelection under the Garibi Hatao campaign
- 1974: After years of nuclear development, the Smiling Buddha is detonated
- 1975: June 12, Gandhi's reelection deemed invalid due to electoral malpractice; She files an appeal
- 1975: June 13, Riots break out in opposition of Gandhi's appeal
- 1975: June 26, Gandhi attempts to arrest her opposition
- 1975: June 26, President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed declares a state of emergency
- 1975: Gandhi regains her position and rules by decree for 18 months
- 1977: Gandhi calls for elections, looses office
- 1977: Choudhary Charan Singh orders the arrest of Indira Gandhi
- 1980: Using her arrest as leverage, Gandhi is reelected
- 1983: Awarded the Lenin Peace Prize
- 1981: September, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a Sikh separatist, takes position in the Golden Temple
- 1981: In spite of the presence of large number of civilians, Gandhi orders troops to flush out Bhindranwale
- 1984: June 1-June 6, Gandhi initiates Operation Blue Star, a campaign against Sikh separatists
- 1984: October 31, Two of Gandhi's bodyguards, both Sikhs, assassinate her in her residence
Indira Gandhi Satire and Humor
- Ilankai Tamil Sangam: Indira Abroad Political Cartoon
- Boloji: India Emergency Political Cartoon
- Fu Jen University: Midnight's Children Reading Guide
