Indira Gandhi

Standard Name: Gandhi, Indira

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Antonia Fraser
This book (which covers the span from the queen of its title to the recent or current regimes of Margaret Thatcher , Golda Meir , and Indira Gandhi ) looks historically at the inbuilt contradictions...
Textual Production Germaine Greer
In 2013 GG sold her archives (student notes and essays, scripts for the CambridgeFootlights Society , literary and scholarly manuscripts, diaries, a handmade book designed for her friend Gay Clifford , and professional and...
Education Iris Murdoch
Among girls' boarding schools Badminton was progressive, founded during the turn-of-the-century movement radically to improve the education of girls. Intensely homesick at first, IM later enjoyed her studies there (including Latin and Greek), as well...

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1953: The United Nations General Assembly appointed...

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1953

The United Nations General Assembly appointed its first female president, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India.

24 January 1966: Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of I...

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24 January 1966

Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of India.

31 October 1984: Indira Gandhi, who had been Prime Minister...

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31 October 1984

Indira Gandhi , who had been Prime Minister of India with only one short break since 1967, was assassinated, shot down in her garden by two of her body-guards who were Sikhs, in retaliation for...

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