Failure to realize such divided loyalties led to the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards in 1984.

Similarly, the Indira Gandhi National Open University in India combines the use of print, recorded audio and video, broadcast radio and television, and audio conferencing technologies.

India under Indira Gandhi fully supported the cause of the East Pakistanis and its troops and equipment were used to fight the Pakistani forces.

Category: Recipients of the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize

The INC was out of power between 1977 and 1980, when the Janata Party won the election due to public discontent with the corruption ( promulgation of Emergency with stringent forces ) of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

This rule was interrupted between 1977 to 1980, when the Janata Party coalition won the election owing to public discontent with the controversial state of emergency declared by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi ( Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī, née Nehru ; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984 ) was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms ( 1966 – 77 ) and a fourth term ( 1980 – 84 ).

Indira Gandhi is associated with fostering a culture of nepotism in Indian politics and in India's institutions.

The international airport at New Delhi is named Indira Gandhi International Airport in her honour.

The Indira Gandhi National Open University, the largest university in the world, is also named after her.

* Pupul Jayakar, Indira Gandhi: An Intimate Biography ( 1992 ) ISBN 978-0-679-42479-6

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* Inder Malhotra, Indira Gandhi: A personal and political biography ( 1991 ) ISBN 0-340-53548-2

* Rare pictures of Indira Gandhi

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* 1984 – Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.

They became widely recognized and accepted throughout the region during the premiership of Indira Gandhi and the 3-year rule of the Janata Party ( 1977 – 1980 ).

* 1917 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India ( d. 1984 )

* 1984 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two security guards.

It was widely perceived that Indira Gandhi was grooming Rajiv for the prime minister's job, and he soon became the president of the Youth Congress – the Congress party's youth wing.

* October 31 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her 2 Sikh security guards.

* October 31 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India ( assassinated ) ( b. 1917 )

* November 19 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India ( d. 1984 )

* January 19 – Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India ; she is sworn in January 24.

* December 19 – Former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi is arrested and jailed for a week for breach of privilege and contempt of parliament.

Subsequently he was called back from retirement to serve as Indian Ambassador to the United States from 1980 – 84, under the Indira Gandhi administration.

The party was in the forefront during the agitation against the emergency ( 1975 – 77 ) imposed by the Indira Gandhi regime and thousands of its leaders and workers were imprisoned across India.

* Indira Gandhi ( 1917 – 1984 ), Prime Minister of India

* June 23 – Piloting a new aerobatic biplane of the Delhi Flying Club, Sanjay Gandhi, the son of Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi, loses control at the top of a loop he is performing over his office near Safdarjung Airport in New Delhi, India.

A fourth-generation scion of the politically powerful Nehru – Gandhi family, Gandhi is the son of Rajiv Gandhi ( 6th Prime Minister of India ) and incumbent Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and the grandson of Feroze Gandhi and Indira Gandhi ( 3rd Prime Minister of India ).

Operation Blue Star (, ( blyū sṭār )) 3 – 6 June 1984 was an Indian military operation, ordered by Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India, to remove Sikh separatists from the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

The period of emergency ( 1975 – 1977 ), declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was the brief period when India's media was faced with potential government retribution.

Jayaprakash Narayan ( Hindi: जयप ् रक ा श न ा र ा यण, Jayprakāśh Narāyan ) ( 11 October 1902 – 8 October 1979 ), widely known as JP Narayan, Jayaprakash, or Loknayak, was an Indian independence activist and political leader, remembered especially for leading the opposition to Indira Gandhi in the 1970s and for giving a call for peaceful Total Revolution.

On 3 – 6 June 1984, the Khalistan movement was sparked into action as Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi ordered Operation Blue Star, the storming of the Golden Temple.

The Janata Dal ( United ) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal – bitter political opponents today — originate from the same Janata Dal and Jayaprakash Narayan's call for a program of social transformation which he termed Sampoorna kraanthi or Total Revolution after Indira Gandhi was found guilty of violating electoral laws by the Allahabad High Court in 1974.

The women of Nehru – Gandhi family like Indira Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi wear the special blouse for the campaign trail which is longer than usually and is tucked in to prevent any midriff show while waving to the crowds. Stylist Prasad Bidapa has to say, “ I think Sonia Gandhi is the country's most stylish politician.