17 Facts About Feroze Gandhi

Feroze Jehangir Gandhi was an Indian freedom fighter, politician and journalist.

Feroze Gandhi served as a member of the provincial parliament between 1950 and 1952, and later a member of the Lok Sabha, the Lower house of Indian parliament.

Feroze Gandhi published The National Herald and The Navjivan newspapers.

Feroze Gandhi was born on 12 September 1912 to a Parsi family at the Tehmulji Nariman Hospital in the Fort district of Bombay; his parents, Jehangir Faredoon Gandhi and Ratimai, lived in Nauroji Natakwala Bhawan in Khetwadi Mohalla in Bombay.

Feroze Gandhi's father Jehangir was a marine engineer working for Killick Nixon and was later promoted as a warrant engineer.

Feroze Gandhi attended the Vidya Mandir High School, and then the British-staffed Ewing Christian College, Prayagraj.

Feroze Gandhi met Kamala Nehru and Indira among the women demonstrators picketing outside Ewing Christian College.

Kamala fainted from the sun's heat and Feroze Gandhi went to look after her.

Feroze Gandhi was imprisoned in 1930, along with Lal Bahadur Shastri and detained in Faizabad Jail for nineteen months over his participation in the independence movement.

Feroze Gandhi first proposed to Indira in 1933, but she and her mother rejected it, as she was still sixteen.

Feroze Gandhi grew close to the Nehru family, especially to Indira's mother Kamala Nehru, accompanying her to the TB sanatorium at Bhowali in 1934, helping arrange her trip to Europe when her condition worsened in April 1935, and visiting her at the sanatorium at Badenweiler and finally at Lausanne, where he was at her bedside when she died on 28 February 1936.

Feroze Gandhi was imprisoned for a year in Allahabad's Naini Central Prison.

Feroze Gandhi soon became a prominent force in his own right, criticizing the government of his father-in-law and beginning a fight against corruption.

Feroze Gandhi initiated a number of nationalization drives, starting with LIC.

Feroze Gandhi continued challenging the government on a number of other issues, and emerged as a parliamentarian well-respected on both sides of the bench.

Feroze Gandhi died in 1960 at the Willingdon Hospital in Delhi, after suffering a second heart attack.

Feroze Gandhi was cremated and his ashes interred at the Parsi cemetery in Allahabad.