India had barely become ...

India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the people of Kashmir, led by Sheikh Abdullah, asked for Indian help. Lord [Louis] Mountbatten, who was still governor general, replied that he wouldn\'t be able to supply aid to Kashmir unless Pakistan declared war, and he didn\'t seem bothered by the fact that the Pakistanis were slaughtering the population.
India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the people of Kashmir, led by Sheikh Abdullah, asked for Indian help. Lord [Louis] Mountbatten, who was still governor general, replied that he wouldn't be able to supply aid to Kashmir unless Pakistan declared war, and he didn't seem bothered by the fact that the Pakistanis were slaughtering the population.
 Indira Gandhi

Quotes from the same author

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
 See image
 Indira Gandhi
I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.
 See image
 Indira Gandhi
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
 See image
 Indira Gandhi
I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that, up until 1965, in our army and the Pakistani one you could come across generals who were brothers? Blood brothers, sons of the same father and the same mother.
 See image
 Indira Gandhi
I've always been able to do what I wanted. On the other hand, my mother was. She considered the fact of being a woman a great disadvantage. She had her reasons. In her day women lived in seclusion - in almost all Indian states they couldn't even show themselves on the street.
 See image
 Indira Gandhi