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Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) is one of those rare political leaders about whom everything is documented yet very little is understood.
April 26, 1992
World & Nation
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi today led more than a million people in chanting “Indira Gandhi is immortal” on the first anniversary of her assassination, while Sikh militants in Amritsar hailed her killers as heroes and demolished part of a building in the holy Golden Temple.
Oct. 31, 1985
The favorite childhood pastime of the scion of India’s First Family was to summon the servants, clamber on top of a table and deliver a rousing speech.
Oct. 25, 1994
The Indian government plans to charge at least four people with conspiring to assassinate Prime Minister Indira Gandhi but has cleared her top aide of involvement, the Press Trust of India said.
March 21, 1989
Two Sikhs were hanged this morning for the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, whose death triggered a wave of separatist violence that continues to plague India.
Jan. 6, 1989
There are still lines of the curious and the morbid every morning outside 1 Safdarjang Road, the rambling bungalow where Indira Gandhi was assassinated a year ago Thursday.
Oct. 28, 1985
The widows of about 500 Sikhs killed in rioting after the assassination last year of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi marched to the house of her son and successor, Rajiv Gandhi, to demand housing and compensation.
Nov. 3, 1985
Admirers of assassinated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi plan to deify her by building a temple to her in southern India.
Feb. 14, 1987
Five years after bodyguard Beant Singh shot and killed Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, his wife, Bimal Kaur Khalsa, on Tuesday was declared a member of the Indian Parliament.
Nov. 29, 1989
While officials attending a memorial service for Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on the anniversary of her assassination today hailed her as a martyr, thousands of Sikhs thronged their holiest shrine to extol her two killers.
Oct. 31, 1986