The only child of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi was herself elected prime minister in 1966.

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Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, won a hotly contested battle for the succession, largely because leaders of the Congress party thought they could manipulate her from behind the scenes.

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His father, Rajiv Gandhi, grandmother, Indira Gandhi, and great-grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, were all prime ministers of India.

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