On the morning of October 31, 1984, as she walked through her garden, smiling, with hands raised and palms pressed together in the traditional indian namaste greeting, indira nehru gandhi was assassinated by her own body...On the morning of October 31, 1984, as she walked through her garden, smiling, with hands raised and palms pressed together in the traditional indian namaste greeting, indira nehru gandhi was assassinated by her own bodyguards. She died as she had lived, surrounded by men, yet isolated.