Indira Lane in Cashmere – Named after Indira Gandhi (1917-1984). Gandhi was Prime Minister of India 1966- 1977 and 1980-1984. One of the streets in Cashmere given the name of a place in India. First appears in street directories in 1987.
A small amount of information from the library website and it is actually named after a person and not a place.
Most houses here were built in the 1980s. I will have to confess that I didn’t actually walk this street as I managed to lose the street. It runs off Nehru Place and I checked my map which showed a street running off Nehru Place. My map looked like I could walk down to Cashmere Rd but I couldn’t find the street. When I got home I looked at street view for 2019 and it shows the street signposted but looks just like a driveway. I am going to have to go back as I could swear that there wasn’t an obvious signpost.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 