Her mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi, India’s prime minister, had just left for her office in an adjoining building. Moments later, she would be assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards, in retaliation for the Indian army’s storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Sikhism’s holiest shrine, earlier that year.
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