A Study on Political Saga and Administrative Reforms of Mrs. Indira Gandhi

Abstract

Indira Gandhi is often described as India's Margaret Thatcher. Superficially, there are obvious similarities; both went to Oxford, were deeply influenced by their fathers, spoilt their wayward sons and were skilled at manipulating populist sentiments. And, of course, they were implacable women, playing hard in a male-dominated world, leaders who grew hubristic and ruthless. Together with Benazir Bhutto, Thatcher and Mrs. Gandhi have also joined the gallery of female leaders who are invoked every time feminists need to be put in their places. This paper deals with the Childhood, her early influences that molded her personality, her role in freedom movement and the methodology related to the present study.