Editing Sonia Gandhi (section)

==Honours and recognition==

Gandhi was seen as the most powerful politician of India from 2004 to 2014,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/the-sonia-gandhi-years-and-what-rahul-gandhi-can-learn/articleshow/61062696.cms|title=The Sonia Gandhi years and what Rahul Gandhi can learn|last=Manoj|first=CL|work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=25 November 2017|date=13 October 2017|quote=Gandhi had to struggle for years before steering the party back to power in 2004, for a 10-year stint when she became India’s most powerful politician.|archive-date=2 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171102054328/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/the-sonia-gandhi-years-and-what-rahul-gandhi-can-learn/articleshow/61062696.cms|url-status=live}}</ref> and variously listed among the most powerful people and women listings by magazines.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="SandbrookGüven2014">{{cite book|author1=Richard Sandbrook|author2=Ali Burak Güven|title=Civilizing Globalization, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Survival Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=asKIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA77|date=1 June 2014|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-5209-8|pages=77–|quote=Sonia Gandhi, who was ranked sixth on Forbes's list of the "100 Most Powerful Women in the World" in 2012}}</ref>

In 2013, Sonia Gandhi was ranked 21st among world's most powerful and 9th most powerful woman by ''Forbes Magazine''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/sonia-gandhi-third-most-powerful-woman-in-forbes-list/story-ywXlS1IFavoPY9QgwBdiVK.html|title=Sonia Gandhi third most powerful woman in Forbes list|work=hindustantimes.com|date=30 October 2013|access-date=22 June 2017|archive-date=6 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506082425/http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/sonia-gandhi-third-most-powerful-woman-in-forbes-list/story-ywXlS1IFavoPY9QgwBdiVK.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2007, she was named the [[Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women|third most powerful woman]] in the world by the same magazine<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2004/08/18/04powomland.html|title=The World's 100 Most Powerful Women|work=[[Forbes]]|date=20 August 2004|access-date=30 May 2014|archive-date=31 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131150836/https://www.forbes.com/lists/2004/08/18/04powomland.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and was ranked 6th in exclusive list in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/11/biz-07women_Sonia-Gandhi_W5BY.html|title=Sonia Gandhi in Forbes' list for 2007|work=[[Forbes]]|date=30 August 2007|access-date=31 August 2007|archive-date=4 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070904032622/http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/11/biz-07women_Sonia-Gandhi_W5BY.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2010, Gandhi was ranked as the ninth most powerful person on the planet by ''Forbes'' magazine.<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/profile/sonia-gandhi In Maino land] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101106203529/http://www.forbes.com/profile/sonia-gandhi|date=6 November 2010}}; retrieved 23 March 2010.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.businesstoday.in/management/leadership/ratan-tata-sonia-gandhi-in-forbes-powerful-list/story/10120.html|title=Ratan Tata, Sonia Gandhi in Forbes' powerful list|work=[[Business Today (India)|Business Today]]|date=4 November 2010|access-date=23 April 2017|location=New Delhi, India|archive-date=23 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423153330/http://www.businesstoday.in/management/leadership/ratan-tata-sonia-gandhi-in-forbes-powerful-list/story/10120.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sonia-Gandhi-Tata-in-Forbes-most-powerful-people-list/articleshow/6870445.cms|title=Sonia Gandhi, Tata in Forbes' most powerful people list|work=[[Times of India]]|date=4 November 2010|access-date=23 April 2017|location=Boston, Massachusetts|archive-date=31 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831072739/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sonia-Gandhi-Tata-in-Forbes-most-powerful-people-list/articleshow/6870445.cms|url-status=live}}</ref> She was ranked 12 in 2012 in Forbes' powerful people list.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/sonia-gandhi-worlds-third-most-powerful-woman-forbes-539466|title=Sonia Gandhi world's third most powerful woman: Forbes|date=30 October 2013|work=NDTV.com|access-date=5 November 2015|archive-date=7 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107201337/http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/sonia-gandhi-worlds-third-most-powerful-woman-forbes-539466|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/sonia-gandhi/|title=Sonia Gandhi|author=Saritha Rai|work=Forbes|access-date=14 September 2017|archive-date=29 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729205157/https://www.forbes.com/profile/sonia-gandhi/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ndtv.com/photos/news/these-are-the-worlds-most-powerful-people-14299#photo-185869|title=These are the world's most powerful people, Photo Gallery|work=NDTV.com|access-date=5 November 2015|archive-date=3 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203193229/http://www.ndtv.com/photos/news/these-are-the-worlds-most-powerful-people-14299#photo-185869|url-status=live}}</ref>

Sonia was also named among the ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]] [[Time 100|100 most influential]]'' people in the world for 2007<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1615513_1614685,00.html Sonia Gandhi among Time's 100 for 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130803145423/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0%2C28804%2C1595326_1615513_1614685%2C00.html|date= 3 August 2013}}; retrieved 14 May 2007.</ref> and 2008.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733757_1735551,00.html Sonia Gandhi among Time's 100 for 2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822203656/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0%2C28804%2C1733748_1733757_1735551%2C00.html |date=22 August 2013}}; retrieved 1 May 2008.</ref> ''[[New Statesman]]'' listed Sonia Gandhi at number 29 in their annual survey of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures" in 2010.<ref name="htanna">{{cite web|title=Sonia Gandhi – 50 People Who Matter 2010|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/09/mother-superior-sonia-gandhi|work=New Statesman|access-date=4 October 2010|archive-date=2 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101002160901/http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/09/mother-superior-sonia-gandhi|url-status=live}}</ref>

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! Year !! Name !! Awarding organisation !! Ref.
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| 2008
| Honorary Doctorate (Literature)
| [[University of Madras]]
|<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chennai/Madras-University-honours-Manmohan-Sonia/Article1-335989.aspx | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130705144625/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chennai/Madras-University-honours-Manmohan-Sonia/Article1-335989.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 July 2013|title=Madras University honours Manmohan, Sonia|newspaper=[[Hindustan Times]]|location=Chennai|date=6 September 2008|access-date=5 July 2013|author=M. R. Venkatesh}}</ref>
|-
| 2006
| [[Order of Leopold (Belgium)|Order of King Leopold]]
| Government of Belgium
|<ref name="Belgium honours Sonia Gandhi">{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_top-belgium-honours-for-sonia-gandhi_1063591|title=Belgium honours Sonia Gandhi|work=Daily News and Analysis|date=12 November 2006|location=India|access-date=9 June 2011|archive-date=13 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113143305/http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_top-belgium-honours-for-sonia-gandhi_1063591|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 2006
| Honorary Doctorate
| [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]] (Brussels University)
|<ref name="Belgium honours Sonia Gandhi"/><ref name="Belgium Sonia Gandhi">{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/belgium-to-honour-sonia-gandhi/story-gDDOpa5kqsKf3jLnyhr7sK.html|title=Belgium to honour Sonia Gandhi|work=[[Hindustan Times]]|date=11 November 2006|location=India|access-date=5 November 2018|archive-date=5 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105160642/https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/belgium-to-honour-sonia-gandhi/story-gDDOpa5kqsKf3jLnyhr7sK.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Vrije Universiteit Brussel  Sonia Gandhi">{{cite web|url=http://www.vub.ac.be/dhc/profiel/sonia-gandhi|title=Sonia Gandhi: Vrije Universiteit Brussel|work=[[Vrije Universiteit Brussel ]]|location=India|access-date=5 November 2018|archive-date=5 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105204142/http://www.vub.ac.be/dhc/profiel/sonia-gandhi|url-status=live}}</ref>
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