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FEROZE

the forgotten

GANDHI

OTHER LOTUS TITLES

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Javier Moro	The Red Sari: A Dramatized Biography of Sonia Gandhi
John Lal	Begam Samru: Fading Portrait in a Gilded Frame
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Lakshmi Vishwanathan	Women of Pride: The Devdasi Heritage
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Peter Church	Added Value: The Life Stories of Indian Business Leaders
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Thomas Weber	Going Native: Gandhis Relationship with Western Women
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FEROZE

the forgotten

GANDHI

a personal narrative
by

Bertil Falk

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This digital edition published in 2016

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Contents

My Quest for Feroze Bhai

Controversies and Feroze Gandhis Origins

Boyhood in Allahabad

The Rebel Finds a Cause

Eventful Days in Allahabad

From Boy to Veteran

A Well-Known Local Congress Worker

The Bumpy Road to Europe

London Years

Triumph of Will

Before the Wedding

Shaadi

Interlude

Quit India the Feroze Way

Last Time in Jail

A Journalist in Anand Bhawan

The Assassination

Lucknow

National Herald

Rae Bareli

Romantic Interlude

Changing with the Times

Maiden Speech and Giant Killer

Behind the Scene of the Mundhra Case

A Guardian of Freedom of the Press

Upheaval in Kerala

Minor Skirmishes

Rae Bareli and Degree College

Other Sides of Feroze

Matters of the Heart

The Last Attack

The Last Rites

The Legacy of Feroze Bhai

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

My Quest for Feroze Bhai

Now, at long last after almost four decades, my quest for Feroze Bhai has been completed. It all started in 1942 when I read a book about a boy in India who became a maharaja and my fascination for this country was born. It continued when I saw newsreels about the Indian struggle for Independence. I became a journalist, but it was not until 1977 that I, for the first time, came to India. The last day in New Delhi I went to Indira Gandhis residence and asked if I could interview her for Kvllsposten (The Evening Post), where I was employed as the reporter of the graveyard shift.

I got forty minutes with the lady, who then was not in power. When I returned to Sweden with my article, one of the editors asked: Where is the picture proving that you have met her? A year later I was back in India with my daughter Katarina and was granted another interview with Indira Gandhi. Katarina took the picture that proved that I had actually met her.

I saw that Indira Gandhi had two sons and grandchildren, and I asked myself: Where is the husband, the father of her children? I asked people and was told that his name was Feroze and he was no one significant. I did some research and stumbled upon the Mundhra case and the Kerala affair and began to understand that Feroze Gandhi was not as insignificant as people were made to believe.

I decided to write an article about him in Swedish but the more I learned about him, I decided on a biography. Over the years I came back to India many times, looked for books where he was mentioned and began interviewing people who had known him or worked with him. This quest led me to his relatives in Bombay and Surat, to villages in Uttar Pradesh, where Feroze had once agitated and had been arrested, as well as to people like Onkar Nath Bhargava in Rae Bareli, Sita Ram Gunthe in Allahabad, Jagdish Kodesia in Delhi, Syed Jaffar and Swaroop Rani Bakshi in Lucknow and Shanta Gandhi in Bombay.

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