POLITICS
Of Indira Gandhi
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Gandhi, Indira (1917-1984), prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and 1979 to 1984. The only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, she was raised in a home that was at the center of India's nationalist movement during its most tumultuous period. Her grandfather Motilal Nehru was a major financial supporter of Mohandas Gandhi and the Congress movement; her father occupied center stage within the Congress Party for two decades before independence in 1947; and her mother, although less involved politically, was subject to political arrest by the British. Mrs. Gandhi has described her childhood as lonely, with some of her most vivid remembrances being the entry into her home of British policemen. Because her parents did not want to send her to any of the British schools in India, her education took place at a series of Indian schools and at non-British schools in Europe, with a number of private tutorials interspersed between periods at school.
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