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Jawaharlal and Kamala Nehru on their wedding day, 8 February 1916. (Hulton Getty)
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Studio portrait of Indira Nehru, aged one, with her parents. (Images
of India)
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Indira (aged six) with Mahatma Gandhi in 1924. Gandhi is wan and frail from fasting,
but
cheerful. (Images of India)
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The Nehru family, circa 1929. (Images of India)
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Jawaharlal, Indira (aged thirteen) and Kamala Nehru in white khadi Congress dress
in front
of Anand Bhawan, 1931. (Nehru Library)
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Swaraj Bhawan, Motilal Nehru’s palatial forty-two room home where Indira Nehru was
bom on 19
November 1917.
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Anand Bhawan, the second, smaller but still luxurious Nehru residence where Motilal
Nehru
moved his family in 1930.
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Indira and other students surround Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan. (Santiniketan archives)
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Indira with her hair bobbed, shortly after arriving in Switzerland with her ailing
mother,
1935. (Images of India)
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Nehru and Indira, very thin and with dark circles under her eyes, en route to England—where
she would enrol at Somerville College—September 1937. (Hutton
Getty)
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Indira with her fellow freshers at Somerville College, Oxford. (Somerville College)
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Photograph of Indira token by Feroze Gandhi during their courtship.
(Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust)
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Feroze and Indira on shipboard on their way back to India from England in early 1941.
(Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust)
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The wedding of Indira Nehru and Feroze Gandhi. (Indira Gandhi
Memorial Trust)
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Indira, the radiant bride at her wedding. (Still from Norvin Hein’s 1942 film of the
Nehru-Gandhi wedding)
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Indira with Sanjay, aged one, in 1948. (Mahatma
Gandhi Research and Media Service)
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Indira and Nehru shortly after Independence. (Popperfoto)
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Indira and Nehru during their trek through Bhutan, September 1958. (Topbam Picturepoint)
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Indira making her acceptance speech as President of Congress,
13 February 1959. (Popperfoto)
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Indira, Nehru and President and Jacqueline Kennedy in Washington DC, November 1961.
(Hulton Getty)
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Indira beside Nehrn’s body as it lies in state, May 1964. (Popperfoto)
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‘Troubled India in a Woman’s Hands.’ Time magazine cover after Indira was elected Prime Minister in January 1966.
(Time magazine)
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Indira meets President Lyndon Johnson on her first prime ministerial visit to the
United
States during India’s 1966 food crisis. (Corbis)
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Indira with a
bandaged nose—looking in her own words, ‘like Batman’—after a rock was thrown at her
in Orissa during the 1967 election campaign. (Images of India)
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Indira with her sons, Rajiv and Sanjay, at their home, 1 Safdarjung Road, in 1967.
(Hulton Getty)
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P. N. Haksar, Indira’s Principal Secretary and most important adviser. (P. N. Haksar)
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Indira at talks with Premier Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow, September 1971.
(Novasti)
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Indira and the Pakistani leader Znfikar Ali Bhutto during the Simla summit conference
following the Indo-Pak war of December 1981. (Hulton
Getty)
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Indira with Siddhartha Shankar Ray and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Delhi, airport (Siddhartha Shankar Ray)
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Formal fomily portrait of Indira and her family in 1974. (Indira
Gandhi Memorial Trust)
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Indira with Sanjay, an elected MP, in Rae Bareilly after she was returned to power
as Prime
Minister, 1980. (Ragbu Rai/Magnum)
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Indira, her one-year-old
grandson Varan, and Maneka Gandhi on the first anniversary remembrance ceremony of
Sanjay
Gandhi’s death, 1981. (Ragbu Rai/Magnum)
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Margaret Thatcher and Indira in front of 10 Downing Street, 22
March 1982. (Hulton Getty)
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Indira surrounded by Sikhs during a campaign tour in the 1980s. (Ragbu Rai/Magnum)
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Indira photographed with her Sikh bodyguard Beant Singh in London
in 1980. Four years later, Singh would be one of her two assassins. (Observer)
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Indira in Kashmir shortly before her death, (Ragbu
Rai/Magnum)
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The funeral pyre of Indira Gandhi with her family, Rahul, Rajiv, Priyanka and Sonia
Gandhi
looking on, 3 November 1984. (Popperfoto)