Indira Gandhi, India's fourth Prime Minister, was born in Allahabad in 1917.
Indira Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917, in Allahabad, India, as Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi, née Nehru. She was an Indian politician who served as the country's first female prime minister for three consecutive terms (1966–77) and a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.
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