In India, Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi were all assassinated in separate incidents. (Indira Gandhi was killed by her own bodyguards.) Suicide bombers in Sri Lanka have killed several leaders there.
His father, Rajiv Gandhi, grandmother, Indira Gandhi, and great-grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, were all prime ministers of India.
According to Messrs Rodrik and Subramanian, India owes its take-off not to Mr Singh or Mr Gandhi, but to Indira Gandhi.
Gandhi has lived in India continuously since marrying former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's eldest son Rajiv in 1968.
In 1984, Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as Indian prime minister amid anti-Sikh riots following the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
As president of his student union, he opposed then-PM Indira Gandhi's imposition of emergency rule.
More than 3, 000 Sikhs were killed in 1984 after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
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It is the southernmost point in India and is named after former premier Indira Gandhi.
Five months later, Indira Gandhi was shot dead by her Sikh bodyguards in revenge.
Inveigling his way into prime minister Indira Gandhi's inner circle, Ambani found the power to control yarn prices.
Before him, his mother, Indira Gandhi, had ruled the country for most of the period since the mid-1960s.
The only child of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi was herself elected prime minister in 1966.
In 1977, former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was arrested on corruption charges.
Indira Gandhi tried something similar in the 1970s, when she called a state of emergency and introduced a forced-sterilisation programme.
In 1971, the Pakistani air force attacked Indian airfields and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency.
Congress, the party that spearheaded India's independence, was converted by Indira Gandhi into a family vehicle for the Gandhi clan.
When Sonia married Rajiv, son of the prime minister, Indira Gandhi, in Delhi in 1968, nobody predicted great things for her.
It has now teamed up with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in India to provide certificate programs in English language.
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At Indira Gandhi, four armed police stood guard at each entrance, and people waiting for arriving passengers were not allowed inside.
When Indira Gandhi briefly imposed dictatorship on India, the so-called emergency in 1975-77, her government coerced people into having fewer children.
More than 3, 000 Sikhs were killed in retaliation for the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards.
She has been an Indian citizen since 1983, a year before her husband succeeded Indira Gandhi as prime minister following her assassination.
During her career, she has interviewed Fidel Castro, Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Michael Jackson, several US presidents and scores of other world figures.
The Stockholm conference was attended by only two heads of government, the host country's prime minister, Olof Palme, and Indira Gandhi from India.
It was a reference to the 21-month stint, beginning in the summer of 1975, when then PM Indira Gandhi determined democracy an inconvenience.
Why was Indira Gandhi, daughter of a committed enemy of the British empire, welcomed by such establishment institutions as Badminton school and Oxford?
New Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said police responded to reports of gunfire at Indira Gandhi International Airport but found no casualties or damage.
Like India's Indira Gandhi, Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina Wajed, and Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, she risked and suffered much to fulfil her father's legacy.
As prime minster in 1971, Indira Gandhi led India in a war against neighbouring Pakistan which resulted in the creations of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan.
Sonia's mother-in-law Indira Gandhi was assassinated while serving as prime minister.
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