Indira Priyadarshini was born on November 19, 1917, she was the only child of Jawaharal Nehru and his wife Kamala in the city of Allahabad in Northern India. The second part of her name Priyadarshini, means“dear to behold.” In the Indian tradition, theirs was a joint family, headed by Indira’s grandfather, Motilal Nehru, a man with a powerful personality and an enormous passion for life. Allahabad was an upper class town, and Motilal, a self-made …showed first 75 words of 3197 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3197 total…to jail for a cause that she believed in. She held her country together during very chaotic times. But there were certain circumstances where I felt Indira used poor judgment in her leadership. For example, when her political party was not ready for the scheduled upcoming election, she postponed it until they were organized. In conclusion, she was a strong willed leader devoted to her nation, a warm mother and grandmother, but a calculating politician.