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    Indira Gandhi was the third Prime Minister of India and the only woman to hold the office. She served from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, making her the second longest serving Prime Minister. Gandhi was the daughter of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and played a central role in the Indian National Congress party. As Prime Minister, she led India to victory in the war against Pakistan that resulted in the creation of Bangladesh and presided over India during the state of emergency from 1975 to 1977.

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    Indira Gandhi was the third Prime Minister of India and the only woman to hold the office. She served from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, making her the second longest serving Prime Minister. Gandhi was the daughter of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and played a central role in the Indian National Congress party. As Prime Minister, she led India to victory in the war against Pakistan that resulted in the creation of Bangladesh and presided over India during the state of emergency from 1975 to 1977.

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    Indira Gandhi was the third Prime Minister of India and the only woman to hold the office. She served from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, making her the second longest serving Prime Minister. Gandhi was the daughter of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and played a central role in the Indian National Congress party. As Prime Minister, she led India to victory in the war against Pakistan that resulted in the creation of Bangladesh and presided over India during the state of emergency from 1975 to 1977.

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    ndira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindustani: [tn:dtre ga:nd 'i] ( listen); ne Nehru; 19 November 1917

    31 October 1984) was the thirdPrime Minister of India and a central figure of the Indian
    National Congress party. Gandhi, who served from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980
    until her assassination in 1984, is the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of India and the only
    woman to hold the office.
    Indira Gandhi was the only child of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. She served as
    the Chief of Staff of her father's highly centralised administration between 1947 and 1964 and
    came to wield considerable unofficial influence in government. ElectedCongress President in
    1959, she was offered the premiership in succession to her father. Gandhi refused and instead
    chose to become a cabinet minister in the government. She finally consented to become Prime
    Minister in succession to Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966.
    As Prime Minister, Gandhi became known for her political ruthlessness and
    unprecedented centralisation of power. She went to warwith Pakistan in support of
    the independence movement and war of independence in East Pakistan, which resulted in an
    Indian victory and the creation of Bangladesh, as well as increasing India's influence to the point
    where it became the regional hegemon of South Asia. Gandhi also presided over a state of
    emergency from 1975 to 1977 during which she ruled by decree and made lasting changes to
    the constitution of India. She was assassinated in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star.
    In 2001, Gandhi was voted the greatest Indian Prime Minister in a poll organised by India Today.
    She was also named "Woman of the Millennium" in a poll organised by the BBC in 1999.
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