Feroze Gandhi
| Feroze Gandhi | |
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Feroze Gandhi, c. 1956
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| Member of the Indian Parliament for Pratapgarh District (west)-Rae Bareli District (east) |
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In office 17 April 1952 – 4 April 1957 |
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| Member of the Indian Parliament for Rae Bareli |
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In office 5 May 1952 – 8 September 1960 |
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| Succeeded by | Baij Nath Kureel |
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Feroze Jehangir Ghandy 12 September 1912 Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India (now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) |
| Died | 8 September 1960 (aged 47) New Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Resting place | Parsi cemetery, Allahabad |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Spouse(s) | Indira Gandhi |
| Relations | See Nehru–Gandhi family |
| Children |
Rajiv Gandhi Sanjay Gandhi |
| Religion | Zoroastrianism |
Feroze Gandhi (born Feroze Jehangir Ghandy; 12 September 1912 – 8 September 1960) was an Indian politician and journalist. He served as the publisher of the The National Herald and The Navjivan newspapers from Lucknow. He was the husband of Indira Gandhi and the son-in-law to Jawaharlal Nehru.
In 1942 he married Indira Nehru (later Prime Minister of India) and they had two sons, Rajiv and Sanjay and thus became part of the Nehru-Gandhi family. His elder son, Rajiv, later also went on to become the Prime Minister of India. He became a member of the provincial parliament (1950–1952), and later a member of the Lok Sabha, the Lower House of India's parliament.
Born as Feroze Jehangir Ghandy to a Parsi family at the Tehmulji Nariman Hospital situated in Fort, Bombay, his parents, Faredoon Jehangir and Ratimai (formerly Ratimai Commissariat), lived in Nauroji Natakwala Bhawan in Khetwadi Mohalla in Bombay. His father Jehangir was a Marine Engineer in Killick Nixon and was later promoted as a Warrant Engineer. Feroze was the youngest of the five children with two brothers Dorab and Faridun Jehangir, and two sisters, Tehmina Kershashp and Aloo Dastur. The family had migrated to Bombay from Bharuch in South Gujarat where their ancestral home, which belonged to his grandfather, still exists in Kotpariwad.
In the early 1920s, after the death of his father, Feroze and his mother moved to Allahabad to live with his unmarried maternal aunt, Shirin Commissariat, a surgeon at the city's Lady Dufferin Hospital (Biographer Katherine Frank has speculated that Feroze was in fact the biological son of Shirin Commissariat.) He attended the Vidya Mandir High School and then graduated from the British-staffed Ewing Christian College.
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