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Indira Gandhi on global underprivilege
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Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, wearing a patterned headscarf and looking to the side against a plain background.
Indira Gandhi Indian politician Indira Gandhi served three consecutive terms as prime minister of India and was serving a fourth term when she was assassinated.

Indira Gandhi on global underprivilege

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Prime minister of India (1966–77, 1980–84).photograph: AP
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Indira Gandhi began the first of her four terms as prime minister of India (1966–77, 1980–84) two years after the death of her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister. Renowned and feared for her political ruthlessness, she left behind a mixed legacy after her assassination in 1984. In addition to sanctioning a mass-sterilization campaign, Gandhi ruled by decree between 1975 and 1977, a time when the government suspended civil liberties, censored the press, and...

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