Rajiv Gandhi served as the 6th Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989. Some key facts about him: - He was born in 1944 to Feroze Gandhi and Indira Gandhi. He studied in India and the UK but did not complete a degree. - He married Sonia Gandhi in 1968. They had two children, Rahul and Priyanka. - He entered politics in the 1980s following the death of his brother Sanjay Gandhi. - He became Prime Minister in 1984 after the assassination of his mother, Indira Gandhi. - His term was dominated by economic liberalization and the Bofors scandal. He was assassinated in 1991

3. Education By the time of his father's death, Rajiv was away at a private boarding school for boys: initially at the Welham Boys' School and later The Doon School , both located at Dehradun , Uttarakhand . He was sent to London in 1961 to study his A-levels . In 1962, he was offered a place at Trinity College, Cambridge to study engineering. Rajiv stayed at Cambridge until 1965 and left the university without a degree mainly because he did not appear in the final Tripos examinations. In 1966, he was offered a place at the Imperial College London . He again left Imperial College after a year without a degree.

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19. Rajiv Gandhi Memorial The Rajiv Gandhi Memorial was built at the site recently and is one of the major tourist attractions to the small industrial town.