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Posted: 17 Jan 2024

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INDIRA •
THE LIFE OF INDIRA NEHRU GANDHI •
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Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi

Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi
in fromnt of 10 Downing Street, 12 March 1982

Nouchetdu38, Percy Schramm, Roger (Grisly), Fred Fouarge and 3 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 Dinesh
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. . . The British Conservative Party leader, Margaret Thatcher, however, accepted and made her first trip to India in September 1976. This was also the first encounter between Indra Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher, and these two notoriously ‘difficult’ women hit it off from the start. As Thatcher’s biographer, Hugo Young put it, Indira ‘was one of the few women by whom [Mrs. Thatcher] has ever allowed herself to be impressed.’ They had ‘from the beginning a uniquely easy relationship, based not on ideological sympathy’ – though Mrs Thatcher voiced no qualms about the Emergency – ‘so much as on the shared experience of being a woman leader’. Indira and Margaret Thatchere were aberrations in the predominantly male world of politics. Although they both repudiated feminism, their loneliness as women leaders led them to form a bond that would endure until Indira’s death. ~ Page 384

In November 1978 it was Swraj Paul en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swraj_Paul,_Baron_Paulwho orchestrated Indra’s political rehabilitation in Britain. . . . . he organized numerous support rallies for her which were attended largely by Indians. He arranged for her to meet the Prime Minister, James Callaghan, and to address a large gathering of both Labour and Conservative MPs. . . . . Indira’s friend, the conservative Party leader, Margaret Thatcher, was, of course, also present and entirely sympathetic. ~ Page 435

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 Dinesh
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On 11 October, Indira’s sense of foreboding was heightened when she heard that Margaret Thatcher had narrowly escaped being blown up by the IRA bomb attack during the Conservative Parfty conference in Brighton. Although Mrs Thatcher escaped unharmed, five others were killed and two of her Cabinet were seriously injured. As Thatcher’s biographer put it, ‘nothing like it had ever happened before in Britain’. Publicly Thatcher retained her sangfroid, but privately she was as shaken as any human being would be. ~ Page 488
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 Roger (Grisly)
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Two powerful women !
3 months ago.
 Peter_Private_Box
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Hi Dinesh
Nice memory from the press, but let me say Mrs Thatcher was not so popular with many!
Best Wishes, a good week ahead, and stay safe!!
Peter
3 months ago.
 Percy Schramm
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Wonderful document of former times.
3 months ago.

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