1. Indira Gandhi was the first female Prime Minister of India.

2. She was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India.

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3. She served as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.

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4. She was the daughter-in-law of Mohandas Gandhi, the leader of the Indian independence movement.

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5. She was assassianted by her own bodyguards in 1984.

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6. She was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.

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7. Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi is named after her.

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8. A small village in Kerala, Indira Nagar, is also named after her.

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9. A number of schools and institutions are named after her, including the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and the Indira Gandhi National Open University.

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10. She was ranked eleventh on Forbes magazine's list of the world's most powerful women in 2014.

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