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Sheila Kaul ( 7 February 1915  13 June 2015 ) was a social democratic leader of the ___MASK30___ , a stateswoman , cabinet minister and governor , and the oldest living former member of parliament in India at the time of her death . She was also an educator , social worker , and social reformer in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh , and an independence activist in British India . She was Jawaharlal Nehru ' s sister - in - law and Indira Gandhi ' s maternal aunt . Deepa Kaul ( born 12 April 1944 , London ) is an Indian politician and social worker who served as a legislator and cabinet minister in the government of Uttar Pradesh . She is the daughter of the politician Sheila Kaul and the scientist Kailas Nath Kaul , and a niece of Jawaharlal Nehru . Uttarakhand ,, formerly known as Uttaranchal , is a state in the northern part of India . It is often referred to as the " Devbhumi " ( literally : " Land of the Gods ") due to many Hindu temples and pilgrimage centres found throughout the state . Uttarakhand is known for its natural beauty of the Himalayas , the Bhabhar and the Terai . On 9 November 2000 , this 27th state of the ___MASK90___ of India was created from the Himalayan and adjoining northwestern districts of Uttar Pradesh . It borders the Tibet on the north ; the Mahakali Zone of the Far - Western Region , Nepal on the east ; and the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh to the south and Himachal Pradesh to the west and north - west as well as Haryana to its south - western corner . The state is divided into two divisions , Garhwal and Kumaon , with a total of 13 districts . The interim capital of Uttarakhand is Dehradun , the largest city in the region , which is a railhead . The High Court of the state is in Nainital . Jawaharlal Nehru ( 14 November 1889  27 May 1964 ) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after ___MASK93___ . He emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian ___MASK93___ movement under the tutelage of Mahatma Gandhi and ruled India from its establishment as an ___MASK61___ nation in 1947 until his death in 1964 . He is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation - state : a sovereign , socialist , secular , and democratic republic . He was also known as Pandit Nehru due to his roots with the Kashmiri Pandit community while many Indian children knew him as " Uncle Nehru " (" Chacha " Nehru ). Uttar Pradesh ( Hindi :         ), abbreviated as UP , is the most populous state in the ___MASK90___ of India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world . It was created on 1 April 1937 as the United Provinces during British rule , and was renamed " Uttar Pradesh " in 1950 . Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh . Ghaziabad , Bulandshahr , Kanpur , Gorakhpur , Allahabad , Raebareli , Moradabad , Bareilly , Aligarh , Sonbhadra , and Varanasi are known for their industrial importance in the state . On 9 November 2000 , a new state , Uttarakhand , was carved out from the Himalayan hill region of Uttar Pradesh . The state in the northern region of the Indian subcontinent has over 200 million inhabitants . The Indian ___MASK93___ movement encompassed activities and ideas aiming to end the East India Company rule ( 1757  1858 ) and the British Indian Empire ( 1858  1947 ) in the Indian subcontinent . The movement spanned a total of 190 years ( 1757 - 1947 ). Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( 2 October 1869  30 January 1948 ) was the preeminent leader of the Indian ___MASK93___ movement in British - ruled India . Employing nonviolent civil disobedience , Gandhi led India to ___MASK93___ and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world . The honorific Mahatma ( Sanskrit : " high - souled ", " venerable ") applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa  is now used worldwide . In India , he is also called Bapu ( Gujarati : endearment for " father ", " papa ") and Gandhiji . He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation . The ___MASK30___ ( INC , often called Congress ), is one of two major political parties in India ; the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party . Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi ( Nehru ; 19 November 1917  31 October 1984 ) was an Indian politician and central figure of the ___MASK30___ party , and to date the only female Prime Minister of India . Indira Gandhi was the daughter of India ' s first Prime Minister , Jawaharlal Nehru . She served as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984 , making her the second - longest - serving Prime Minister of India after her father . Gandhi served as her father ' s personal assistant and hostess during his tenure as prime minister between 1947 and 1964 . She was elected Congress President in 1959 . Upon her father ' s death in 1964 , Gandhi refused to enter the Congress party leadership contest and instead chose to become a cabinet minister in the government led by Lal Bahadur Shastri . In the Congress Party ' s parliamentary leadership election held in early 1966 , upon the death of Shastri , she defeated her rival , Morarji Desai , to become leader , and thus succeeded Shastri as Prime Minister of India . India , officially the ___MASK90___ of India (" Bhrat Gaarjya "), is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh - largest country by area , the second - most populous country ( with over 1 . 2 billion people ), and the most populous democracy in the world . It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south , the Arabian Sea on the southwest , and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast . It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west ; China , Nepal , and Bhutan to the northeast ; and Myanmar ( Burma ) and Bangladesh to the east . In the Indian Ocean , India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives . India ' s Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia . Its capital is New Delhi ; other metropolises include Mumbai , Kolkata , Chennai , Bangalore , Hyderabad and Ahmedabad .