The Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum (IGMM) in Delhi has curated a photo exhibition featuring many rarely seen images of the late leader’s personal and public appearances, to commemorate her 100th birth anniversary. Selected from among the thousands of images available of the country’s first woman Prime Minister, the 320 at the exhibition — on view at the IGMM from November 21 to January 31 — include many that are on public view for the first time.

Apart from glimpses of her early life, long before she entered active politics, the collection helps trace her evolution from being Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s protégée to becoming the country’s second longest-serving PM (after her father, who headed the government from 1947-67). The photographs from her private life include many with her husband Feroze, father Nehru and other family members.

All images courtesy Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust Archive

Among icons: At the Ellora caves, Maharashtra, 1961. Photograph by Rajiv Gandhi

Yours, pensively: On the steps of the train that carried Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes, 1948

Emissary of change: With Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family in Dhaka, March 1972

Multicultural fabric: With Apatani weavers in Ziro Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, 1964

In charge: Surveying flood-hit areas in UP and Bihar, September 10, 1966

Heart of the matter: Indira Gandhi with husband Feroze, 1942

Published on November 17, 2017