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Definition of Indira Gandhi

1. Noun. Daughter of Nehru who served as prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 (1917-1984).

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Literary usage of Indira Gandhi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dead Silence: The Legacy of Human Rights Abuses in Punjab by Human Rights Watch/Asia, Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) (1994)
"... government of Indira Gandhi and die Akali Dal leadership. Control over local river waters was die most important of die Akali demands and was bitterly ..."

2. Capital (1888)
"THE former Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, has staged a triumphant return to Parliament. Whether she achieved this miracle from her own. home State of ..."

3. State, Markets, and Just Growth: Development in the Twenty-First Century by Atul Kohli, Chung-in Moon, Georg Sørensen (2003)
"Moving up the scale of the economically consequential, Indira Gandhi intensified ... First, beyond rhetoric and symbolic politics, Indira Gandhi held her ..."

4. The Cornerstone of Development: Integrating Environmental, Social, and by Jamie Schnurr, Susan Holtz (1998)
"... (Indira Gandhi Canal Project) [India] IIMA Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad IRD integrated rural development ISFP Integrated Social Forestry ..."

5. Playing the "Communal Card": Communal Violence and Human Rights by Cynthia G. Brown, Farhad Karim (1995)
"... communalization of politics occurred during the 1970s when Indira Gandhi was prime minister. During this period, support for the Congress Party waned. ..."

6. India and the United States: Estranged Democracies, 1941-1991 by Dennis Kux (1994)
"4 Johnson's first meeting as President with a senior Indian came in April 1964, when he received Prime Minister Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, ..."

7. Confucian Feminist: Memoirs of Zeng Baosun (1893-1978) by Baosun Zeng, Thomas L. Kennedy (2002)
"I later appeared with him a« a «peaker at a public gathering where an audience of twenty to thirty thousand ih rapt met I" .1 .'Monter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, ..."

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