# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/indira-gandhi
# Generated: 2026-09-06T10:33:47.156Z

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name: "Indira Gandhi"
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description: "India's first and only female prime minister, she ruled for over fifteen years across two stints — centralizing power, waging wars that reordered South Asia, declaring a state of emergency that jailed over 100,000 opponents, and ending in assassination by her own Sikh bodyguards after ordering troops into the Golden Temple."
tagline: "Prime Minister of India (1966-1977; 1980-1984)"
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birthDate: "1917-11-19"
deathDate: "1984-10-31"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, she served as his hostess through his tenure and rose through the Congress party ranks, becoming prime minister in 1966 after outmaneuvering rival Morarji Desai. She led India to a decisive victory over Pakistan in 1971 that created Bangladesh and made India the sole regional power in South Asia, oversaw the country's first nuclear test in 1974, and aligned closely with the Soviet Union despite leading the Non-Aligned Movement. Her 1975–1977 emergency suspended civil liberties and imprisoned more than 100,000 dissenters; voters threw her out in 1977, but weak opposition governance returned her to office by landslide in 1980. Facing Sikh separatism in her final term, she ordered Operation Blue Star — a military assault on the Golden Temple that killed hundreds. On 31 October 1984, two of her Sikh bodyguards shot her dead in retaliation.