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Indira Gandhi Of India

Mrs Indira Gandhi Prime Minister of India talks to Lord Chalfont about her life and times. She was born Indira Priyadarshini Nehru in Allahabad in 1917. Her father, Jawaharlal Nehru , was one of the supreme architects of Indian independence and became the first Indian Prime Minister. She was involved from early childhood in the struggle for freedom and like the rest of her family was imprisoned by the British. Now she is Prime Minister of the largest democracy in the world, the elected leader of 550,000,000 people. This week Mrs Gandhi comes to London as the guest of the British Government. Producer MALCOLM BROWN

English
  • Originally Aired October 26, 1971
  • Runtime 55 minutes
  • Network BBC Two
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