Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi was born on November, 1917, in Allahabad, India. She had an excellent education in Swiss schools and at Somerville College, Oxford. When her mother died, in 1936, Ghandi became her father's assistant, learning from him. Ghandi was elected president of the Indian National Congress in 1960. After her father's death, Gandhi was appointed Minister of information and broadcasting. When her father's successor, Lal Bahadur Shastri, died, Indira became prime minister. Gandhi introduced agricultural programs that improved her country's economy.
The Indo-Pakistan war broke out in 1971, and the Pakistan army conducted violent acts against the people of East Pakistan, nearly 10 million people fled to India.
Gandhi also started the Green Revolution; She decided to increase crop diversification and food exports, creating new jobs as well as food for her country. Despite these advancements, Gandhi ruled with autority. In 1975, the high courts found her guilty of a minor infraction during the year's elections and her opponents called for her resignation.
Gandhi responded by requesting that the president call for a state of emergency.
Gandhi lost the next election and went to prision. In 1980 she won by a big majority. The same year, her son Sanjay Gandhi who had been serving as her political adviser, died in New Delhi. After Sanjay's death, Indira prepared her other son, Rajiv, for leadership.
During the 1980s, a Skih separatist movement developed in India, which Gandhi tried to stop. Skih extremists held to a campaign inside the Golden Temple, and Gandhi ordered some 70000 soldiers to purge the sacred space. More than 450 people died.
On October 31, 1984, Indira was assesinated by a Sikh. He fired a gun and Indira died in the way to hospital.