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Indira Gandhi
(19 November 1917 31 October 1984)
was the third Prime
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
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