Feroze Gandhi (12 August 1912 - 8 September 1960) was an Indian politician and journalist. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Events 70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem. 1264 - The Statute of Kalisz Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He was a member of India's first parliament and the husband of Indira Gandhi and father of Sanjay Gandhi and the former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi ( Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī) ( Née: Nehru (19 November 1917 - 31 October 1984 was the Prime Minister of the Sanjay Gandhi ( December 14, 1946 –- June 23, 1980) was an Indian politician the younger son of Prime Minister Indira Rajiv Gandhi राजीव गांधी (raːdʒiːv gaːnd̪ʰiː born in Bombay, (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991 the elder son of Indira and Feroze
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Early life
Feroze Gandhi was born "Feroze Gandhy". [1][2][3] into a Parsi family [4]
Feroze was educated at the City Anglo-Vernacular High School and Ewing Christian College, followed by the London School of Economics. Ewing Christian College is one of the oldest colleges established in India. The London School of Economics and Political Science, more commonly referred to as The London School of Economics or LSE, is a specialist college of the He abandoned his studies in 1930 to join the struggle for Indian independence.
Feroze grew close to the Nehru family, especially Indira's mother Kamala Nehru and Indira herself. Kamala Kaul Nehru (1899&ndash1936 was the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian National Congress and first Prime Minister of India. Feroze helped nurse the ailing Kamala, and briefly traveled with Nehru, Kamala and Indira to Europe. Nehru and Kamala were not pleased with the match[5][6]. Indira and Feroze grew more close to each other in England. They married in 1942.
Arrested and jailed during the Quit India Movement less than six months after their marriage, he was imprisoned for a year in Allahabad's Naini Central Prison. The Quit India Movement (Bharat Chhodo Andolan or the August Movement) was a Civil disobedience movement launched in India in August 1942 in Allahabad ( Hindi: इलाहाबाद Urdu: الہ آباد Ilāhābād) is a city in the north Indian state of Uttar Indira was also imprisoned. In 1944, she gave birth to Rajiv Gandhi, India's future Prime Minister. Rajiv Gandhi राजीव गांधी (raːdʒiːv gaːnd̪ʰiː born in Bombay, (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991 the elder son of Indira and Feroze In 1946, Sanjay Gandhi, was born. Sanjay Gandhi ( December 14, 1946 –- June 23, 1980) was an Indian politician the younger son of Prime Minister Indira Indira and Feroze settled in Allahabad with their two young children, and Feroze became editor of The National Herald, a newspaper founded by his father-in-law. Allahabad ( Hindi: इलाहाबाद Urdu: الہ آباد Ilāhābād) is a city in the north Indian state of Uttar
Political career
Feroze Gandhi contested elections to the Parliament of India in 1952 , independent India's first general elections from Rai Bareilly constituency in Uttar Pradesh. The Parliament of India (or Sansad) is the federal and supreme Legislative body of India. His wife served as his campaign organizer, and Gandhi won. But Feroze soon became a prominent force in his own right, criticizing the Government of his father-in-law and beginning a tirade against corruption. His exposure of a scandal involving major insurance companies and the Finance Minister T.T. Krishnamachari caused the latter to resign, and caused Nehru a major embarrassment. Tiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachariar ( 1899 - 1974) was the Indian Finance Minister from 1956 - 1958 and from 1964 - Feroze began building his own reputation and small coterie of supporters and advisors, and continued challenging the government. He was re-elected in 1957.
Death
Feroze suffered his first heart attack in 1958. Indira took him to recuperate in Kashmir, where with their young boys, they were together again. This article is about the geographical region of greater Kashmir However, Feroze died in 1960 of a second heart attack.
See also
Notes
- ^ The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
- ^ http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011217&s=khilnani121701
- ^ The Sunday Tribune - Books
- ^ On page 93 of her book "Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi", Katherine Frank mentions the name of Feroze Gandhi's father Jehangir Gandhy a Parsi with a Gujarati name. The Nehru-Gandhi family (which is not in fact descended from Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi) is an Indian Political family which has been Feroze Gandhi, therefore took the last name Gandhi from his father.
- ^ "Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi" by Katherine Frank
- ^ http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011217&s=khilnani121701
References
- Frank, Katherine (2002). Katherine Frank is a noted American author and biographer now living in England. Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi. Houghton Mifflin Books. ISBN 0-395-73097-X.
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