Indira Gandhi

In 1966, Indira Gandhi became India's first female Prime Minister, and in doing so, one of the world's most powerful women. She had grown up in a political household, as the daughter of a Prime Minister, and viewed the intricacies of political life from early childhood onwards. Her father, Jawahalal Nehru, had worked alongside Mohandas Gandhi to bring India to independence from the British in 1947.