ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the question of whether Mrs. Indira Gandhi made the choices she did in June 1975 not wholly to solve her country's problems, nor the prime minister's, but in some significant measure, her own. Indira Gandhi in June 1975 approached the extreme case in which psychological predispositions could have been decisive. Manipulating her public image, Prime Minister Gandhi has been at pains to profess somewhat contradictory views of her relation to her father's role. The course of studies Indira and her father had chosen must have fit her interests as well as any program at Oxford could have: social and public administration, French, and modern history. Resiling from Oxford, Indira fixed upon marriage to the man who most nearly, among all those whom she knew, evoked her mother's image. The marriage, one of the most prominent of the nationalist generation, has attracted controversy, largely speculative because both husband and wife valued the privacy of their relationships.
