Modern Era · South Asia · Politics
1984
Indira Gandhi assassinated
October 31, 1984
In her New Delhi garden, the Indian prime minister was shot by two of her own Sikh bodyguards, in revenge for her ordering troops into the Golden Temple at Amritsar months earlier. Days of anti-Sikh riots killed perhaps three thousand in Delhi alone. Her son Rajiv became prime minister. He too would die by assassination.
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