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Dates, parties and achievements come from each prime minister's Wikipedia article, checked against Wikipedia's article summaries. India doesn't officially number its prime ministers; the numbers here follow Wikipedia's list, where Gulzarilal Nanda, acting prime minister twice, is unnumbered. Party is the party the prime minister led the government for; Congress covers the Indian National Congress and its successor factions led by Indira Gandhi.

The portraits are drawn in the stipple-and-hatch hedcut style that financial newspapers made famous. Each one was redrawn by an AI image model from a freely licensed photo on Wikimedia Commons, then cleaned up to pure ink on white. They are illustrations, not photographs: small details may differ from the source. Drawings made from share-alike (CC BY-SA) photos are shared under that same license.

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