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India's Kashmiri Pandit community: Its history and prominent personalities

New Delhi: The Kashmiri Brahmin Community, popularly called Kashmiri Pandits, form a distinct class of their own and are considered to be the purest specimens of the ancient Aryan settlers in the Valley.  This small

Indira Gandhi



Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms (1966–77) and a fourth term (1980–84). 

Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and she remains as the world's second longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2012.  

She was the first woman to become prime minister in India.

She was also the only Indian Prime Minister to have declared state of emergency in order to 'rule by decree' and the only Indian Prime Minister to have been imprisoned after holding that office.  

She was assassinated by her bodyguards in retaliation for ordering Operation Blue Star.

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