The Tempestuous Nehru Dynasty of India

India's First Prime Minister
Nehru and his Congress Party ruled from independence in 1947 to 1964, when he died of a stroke. In the next two years, Congress seeking to re-energize itself picked his daughter Indira, who had married lawyer Feroze Gandhi (no relation to the Mahatma), and thus had the combination of the Nehru bloodline and possession of the iconic Gandhi name. If the party elders were expecting a pliable figurehead in Indira, they were wrong....

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