The third Prime Minister of India was Indira Gandhi. She was the first and, to date, the only woman to hold the post of Prime Minister in India. Indira Gandhi served as Prime Minister in two separate terms, first from 1966 to 1977 and then from 1980 until her assassination in 1984

. Note: Lal Bahadur Shastri was the second Prime Minister of India, serving after Jawaharlal Nehru