Indira Gandhi was born on 19th November 1917; she was the only child of Kamala and Jawaharlal Nehru. During her childhood she lived in Allahabad, India, and in Switzerland, where her mother Kamala was ill. She had a college education at Somerville , Oxford. Her mother died in 1936.
Indira’s politics started when she was twelve years old. 1938 she was active in the independence matters. 1942 she married Ferize Gandhi, he was a journalist. Then their two sons were born. She was three months in prison because she had a political idea. Fortunately India won the independence from Britain in 1947 and in that same year Indira‘s father Jawaharlal Nehru became Prime Minister. After her mother died, Indira worked as air-hostess. She travelled with her father and met famous politicians. After her father‘s death in 1964, Indira got the job of Minister of Bahadur Shastri.
In January 1966 she was elceted Prime Minister of India. She was the first woman ever elected to lead a democracy in India. It came a population growth and so Indira Gandhi started a voluntary sterilization programme and enforced birth control. Enemies said she restricted the freedom of Indians. Indira stopped in March 1977. But she won back her position in 1980 and she was Prime Minister again.
On the 23rd ofJune 1980 her son was killed in a plane crash. On 13th October 1984, two bodyguards murdered Indira Gandhi in New-Dehli. They thought she was against Sikhs and had stormed the Gold Temple of Sikhs. Her son Rajiv Gandhi took her position. When she was Minister, Indira Gandhi wanted to make life better for the Indians. Her career ended with the victory of the war in 1971 against Pakistan.
In 1971 India sent the first Indian satellite into space. She made India to a quickly growing economy in the world and continued what her father began; she was a very powerful woman.
I chose Indira Gandhi, because my father told me about her and I found her life was very interesting! She was the first woman who became the president of a country.