Feroze Jehangir Ghandy
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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, India |
| Resting place | Parsi cemetery, Allahabad |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Spouse(s) | Indira Gandhi (m. 1942) |
| Relations | See Nehru–Gandhi family |
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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 National Herald and The Navjivan newspapers from Lucknow. In 1942 he married Indira Nehru and they had two sons, Rajiv and Sanjay. His elder son, Rajiv, later also went on to become the Prime Minister of India.
Feroze Gandhi 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 Ghandy 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.
In 1930, the wing of Congress Freedom fighters, the Vanar Sena was formed. Feroze met Kamala Nehru and Indira among the women demonstrators picketing outside Ewing Christian College. Kamala fainted with the heat of the sun and Feroze went to comfort her. The next day, he abandoned his studies in 1930 to join the Indian independence movement. Being inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, Feroze changed the spelling of his surname from "Ghandy" to "Gandhi" after joining the Independence movement. He was imprisoned in 1930, along with Lal Bahadur Shastri (the 2nd Prime Minister of India), head of Allahabad District Congress Committee, and lodged in Faizabad Jail for nineteen months. Soon after his release, he was involved with the agrarian no-rent campaign in the United Province (now Uttar Pradesh) and was imprisoned twice, in 1932 and 1933, while working closely with Nehru.
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