Indira Gandhi was the first woman prime minister of India. She was also known as Priyadarshini. She was an Indian politician, stateswoman and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was the was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru was the first prime minister of India. In spite of her surname Gandhi, she is not related to the family of Mahatma Gandhi. She governed as Prime Minister from January 1966 to March 1977 and again from January 1980 until her assassination in October 1984, making her the second longest-serving Indian Prime Minister after her father Nehru.....Read more