Indira Gandhi, India's first female prime minister, was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards in a shocking act of political violence.
Her murder triggered widespread communal riots, particularly in New Delhi, where thousands of Sikhs were killed in retaliatory action
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At 9:20am on 31 October 1984 India's prime minister Indira Gandhi was shot by two of her security guards in the garden of her home at No 1, Safdarjung Road in Delhi.
The attack led to rioting on a grand scale across India as Hindus took their revenge on Sikhs. At least 1,000 people are thought to have died and the army eventually intervened to quell the violence.
The assassination itself was revenge for the raid on Sikhism's holiest shrine in Amritsar to flush out separatist militants who had taken refuge there.