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Sources and portraits
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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Source photo credits
| Prime minister | Source | License |
|---|---|---|
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Harry Pot (Nationaal Archief) | CC0 |
| Gulzarilal Nanda | Unknown author | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Lal Bahadur Shastri | India Post, Government of India | GODL-India |
| Indira Gandhi | Prime Minister's Office | GODL-India |
| Morarji Desai | U.S. Embassy New Delhi | Public domain |
| Charan Singh | Charan Singh Archives | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Rajiv Gandhi | Bart Molendijk / Anefo | CC BY-SA 3.0 nl |
| V. P. Singh | Christian Lambiotte - European Commission | CC BY 4.0 |
| Chandra Shekhar | CoastShine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| P. V. Narasimha Rao | Christian Lambiotte - European Commission | CC BY 4.0 |
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Government of India | GODL-India |
| H. D. Deve Gowda | Press Information Bureau, Government of India | GODL-India |
| Inder Kumar Gujral | Prime Minister's Office | GODL-India |
| Manmohan Singh | Prime Minister's Office | GODL-India |
| Narendra Modi | Prime Minister's Office | GODL-India |