Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum, New Delhi > Reviews

Advantages: A great mix of the public and private woman
Disadvantages: The crowds can be overwhelming

...of whom much is expected; Indira Gandhi's place in Indian social and political history would have been ensured even without her own remarkable achievement. Indira was the first - and so far only - woman Prime Minister of the world's largest democracy. Her election in 1966 made her only the second woman to serve as president or prime minister in modern times. So much for the idea that India was a backward place - she took power 13 years before the ... Read review