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Indira Gandhi
said
We make no discrimination against the adherent of any religion. All faiths are entitled to equal protection and equal respect.
— 28 January 1981, as quoted in Towards a New India (1994) by , p. 16.
Indira Gandhi
Prime Minister of India (1966-1977; 1980-1984)
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Lived 1917–1984, aged 67India
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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.
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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…
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Indira Gandhi
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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
— "True Liberation Of Women", speech, inauguration of the All-India Women's Conference Building Complex in New Delhi, India (March 26, 1980).
Indira Gandhi
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My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
— Quoted in "Indira's Coup," profile by Oriana Fallaci, The New York Review of Books (September 18, 1975).
Indira Gandhi
said
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
— "The Embattled Woman Who Relishes Crosswords, Children...and Running India," People (June 30, 1975).
Indira Gandhi
said
There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
— First global conference on the human environment (UNCHE) in Stockholm in June 1972 by UN.
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