{"id":60903,"date":"2021-11-21T19:14:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T00:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=60903"},"modified":"2024-04-30T09:36:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T13:36:28","slug":"indira-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/indira-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Indira Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">Indira Gandhi<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"db6521b3fea34c97218abcb2cb6834ba\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTRba4b10079b9ab14d6536d17cf0a6cf20\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTRba4b10079b9ab14d6536d17cf0a6cf20\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTRba4b10079b9ab14d6536d17cf0a6cf20\" data-pagination=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61885&quot;,&quot;query&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:500,&quot;speed&quot;:5,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;stop_rollover&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;cache_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_images&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_reach&quot;:1,&quot;spinner&quot;:&quot;builtin&quot;,&quot;spinner_image&quot;:&quot;\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif&quot;,&quot;callback_next&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;manage_history&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;has_controls_in_form&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;infinite_tolerance&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;max_pages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1,&quot;base_permalink&quot;:&quot;\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60903?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTRba4b10079b9ab14d6536d17cf0a6cf20&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;:0}}\" data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60903?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTRba4b10079b9ab14d6536d17cf0a6cf20\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: February 22, 2022<\/h2>\n\n<h3>The Yuh Prosthodontics Lecture<\/h3>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Lives Lecture 2022: Indira Gandhi\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/665295571?h=cf80bb575a&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Indira-Gandhi-268x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Indira-Gandhi-268x300.jpg 268w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Indira-Gandhi.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><p>One of first female Prime Ministers in the world and the first and only in India, Indira Gandhi was born in 1917 to a prominent political family at the height of India\u2019s nationalist movement for freedom from British colonial rule. She spent a lonely childhood as her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, noted nationalist leader and later, independent India\u2019s first Prime Minister, was mostly away from home and often incarcerated by the British colonial administration and her mother, Kamala Nehru, was in poor health. Gandhi was educated in private schools in India and Switzerland and eventually, went to college in Oxford. She was unable to complete college on account of the second World War and her own ill health, returning to India in 1941. She married Feroze Gandhi, a politician and journalist, on her return to India.<\/p>\n<p>Indira Gandhi\u2019s political career started at thirteen in the youth wing of the Indian National Congress, picketing against the British during India\u2019s largely nonviolent freedom movement. After a hiatus during which she traveled to Europe on account of her mother\u2019s need for treatment and for her own higher education, she resumed her political work on her return to India. Her involvement with politics got deeper as her marriage began to fail and she became her father\u2019s confidant, advisor, and <cite>de facto<\/cite> hostess at his prime ministerial residence. Her political profile rose as she became the President of the Indian National Congress in 1959. However, her reputation remained one of a \u201cdumb doll\u201d, revealing little of the shrewd, decisive, aggressive and somewhat dictatorial leader she would eventually become. <\/p>\n<p>Her rise to the post of the Prime Minister of India in 1966 reflects the challenges women faced in ascending to leadership positions in politics and elsewhere. Once in power, Gandhi transformed Indian politics and the Indian state itself. India\u2019s decisive victory against Pakistan in 1971 and its \u201cpeaceful nuclear explosion\u201d in 1973 reset India\u2019s reputation as a dominant power in the region. India became self-sufficient in food production under her watch. Her economic policies transformed the industrial landscape, turning the Indian economy more inward-looking. Her eventual declaration of political \u201cemergency\u201d signaled the only period of formal suspension of democratic norms in independent India. She faced electoral defeat, imprisonment and rose from those ashes to become Prime Minister again in 1980. Finally, her disastrous response to a separatist movement in India\u2019s northern state of Punjab cost her her life when her personal bodyguards assassinated her in 1984.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: Surupa Gupta<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Surupa-Gupta-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Surupa-Gupta-150x150.jpeg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Surupa-Gupta-50x50.jpeg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Surupa-Gupta-75x75.jpeg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n<p>Surupa Gupta, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, earned a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Southern California and a Masters in International Relations and Bachelors in Economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. <\/p>\n<p>Professor Gupta\u2019s research focuses on India\u2019s foreign and domestic economic policies. She has written on the domestic politics of trade and agriculture in India as well as India\u2019s engagement with international economic institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund. She is the author of <cite>The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy Reform in India<\/cite> (with Regina Birner and Neeru Sharma). Her research has been published in both scholarly journals such as <cite>International Negotiations, International Studies Perspectives<\/cite> and outlets such as the <cite>Foreign Affairs<\/cite> and <cite>Foreign Policy<\/cite> blogs.  She was a 2015-2016 Asia Studies Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington D.C. At UMW, Professor Gupta chairs the Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[1245],"class_list":{"0":"post-60903","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-1245","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Indira Gandhi - Great Lives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/indira-gandhi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indira Gandhi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/indira-gandhi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Great Lives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-30T13:36:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/greatlives\\\/lecture\\\/indira-gandhi\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/greatlives\\\/lecture\\\/indira-gandhi\\\/\",\"name\":\"Indira Gandhi - 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