Indira Gandhi

Brendan Strey
APWH II
Mr. Whalen
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Indira Gandhi is born.Indira's Mother, Kamala Nehru dies.Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi are married.Feroze Gandhi dies.Indira's father, Jawaharlal Nehru dies. He was the Prime Minister of India, now Lal Bahadur Shastri takes his place.Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri dies of a heart attack, and Indira Gandhi takes his place as Prime Minister.Indira is voted into office as Prime Minister of India, the first female to do so.Indo-Pakistani War ends.Indira Gandhi wins Lok Sabha elections with her new political party, the "New" Congress Party. Becomes Prime Minister for another term.Indira Gandhi aids East Bengal in its secessionist conflict with Pakistan, India's armed forces achieve a victory over Pakistan which leads to the creation of Bangladesh.Indira joins the Congress Party (a political party).She is expelled from the Congress Party due to growing tensions between her and her Deputy Prime Minister, Morarji Desai. However, she remains Prime Minister.Gandhi leads her New Congress Party to landslide victories in a large number of elections. Her defeated Socialist Party opponent from the 1971 national election charges that she violated the election laws.The High Court of Allahabad rules against Indira Gandhi, stating that she would lose her seat in parliament and would be required to stay out of politics for six years.Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency to preserve her position in the government, thus transforming her Prime Minister role into dictator.Indira Gandhi's state of emergency ends.The postponed national election occurs, and Indira Gandhi and her party loses. She leaves office and is no longer Prime Minister.Indira Gandhi splits from the "New" Congress Party and forms a new party; Congress (I) Party.Sanjay Gandhi, one of Indira's sons, dies in an airplane crash.Indira Gandhi and her new party, Congress (I) Party win the Lok Sabha elections. Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India again.Sanjay Gandhi is born. Son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi.Rajiv Gandhi is born. Son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi.A large number of Sikhs, led by Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, occupy the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) at Amritsar, the Sikhs’ holiest shrine. This heightens tensions considerably because the threat of danger is now getting closer and closer.Gandhi orders the Indian army to attack and oust the separatists from the Golden Temple. This is known as Operation Bluestar. Some buildings in the shrine were badly damaged in the fighting, and at least 450 Sikhs were killed.Indira Gandhi is assassinated in her garden by two of her own bodyguards. Her killers were of the Sikh faith, proving that the murder was revenge for the attacks on the Golden Temple 5 months earlier.Her remaining son, Rajiv, assumes power and becomes Prime Minister due to succession.Rajiv Gandhi is no longer Prime Minister of India, he loses the election.

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Several states seek a larger measure of independence from the central government, and Sikh separatists in Punjab state begin to use violence to assert their demands for an autonomous state.

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Several states seek a larger measure of independence from the central government, and Sikh separatists in Punjab state begin to use violence to assert their demands for an autonomous state.Several states seek a larger measure of independence from the central government, and Sikh separatists in Punjab state begin to use violence to assert their demands for an autonomous state.

Indira Gandhi faces jail time for corruption in the 1971 elections.

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Gandhi begins jail time and enters jail for corruption charges in the 1971 elections.End of Gandhi's jail time for corruption charges and exits jail.