During her stay in the UK, Nehru frequently met her future husband Feroze Gandhi, whom she knew from Allahabad, and who was studying at the London School of Economics.

Rajiv Gandhi was the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi.

After becoming an MP, Feroze Gandhi also moved to Delhi, but " Indira continued to stay with her father, thus putting the final seal on the separation.

After Feroze Gandhi had a heart attack in 1958, the family was reconciled briefly when they holidayed in Kashmir.

** Feroze Gandhi, Indian politician ( b. 1912 )

In 1984 Indira Gandhi brought an action against the book in the British courts, claiming to have been defamed by a single sentence in chapter 28, penultimate paragraph, in which her son Sanjay Gandhi is said to have had a hold over his mother by him accusing her of contributing to his father's Feroze Gandhi's death through her neglect.

A fourth-generation scion of the politically powerful Nehru – Gandhi family, Gandhi is the son of Rajiv Gandhi ( 6th Prime Minister of India ) and incumbent Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and the grandson of Feroze Gandhi and Indira Gandhi ( 3rd Prime Minister of India ).

Feroze Jehangir Gandhi or Feroze Gandhy ( Firoz Jahangīr Gāndhī ; ; 12 September 1912 – 8 September 1960 ) was an Indian politician and journalist, and publisher of the The National Herald and The Navjivan newspapers from Lucknow.

Feroze Jehangir Gandhi was born in Mumbai at the Tehmulji Nariman Hospital situated in Fort, to a Parsi ( Zoroastrian ) family from Gujarat.

Feroze was not related to Mahatma Gandhi.

Feroze was the youngest of the five children of Jehangir Faredoon Gandhi and Ratimai Gandhi ( formerly Ratimai Commissariat ).

Portrait of Feroze and Indira Gandhi.

* Feroze Gandhi Profile at Lok Sabha website.

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In 1952, Indira helped Feroze manage his campaign for elections to the first Parliament of India from Rae Bareli.

* Feroze Gandhi ( husband of Indira Gandhi, Member of Parliament

He was placed on the Mughal throne in December 1759 by Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung III but subsequently deposed by the Afghan confederation ( Rohillas and Ahmad Shah Abdali ) and Nawab of Oudh Shuja-ud-Daula in 1760 in recognition of Shah Alam II as the rightful heir to the throne who was in exile at Allahabad.

The marriage took place in Allahabad according to Adi Dharm rituals though Feroze belonged to a Parsi family of Gujarat.

His father, Feroze, was one of the younger members of the Indian National Congress party, and had befriended the young Indira, and also her mother Kamala Nehru, while working on party affairs at Allahabad.

Meanwhile, Feroze continued alone in Lucknow.

" Relations were strained further when Feroze challenged corruption within the Congress leadership over the Haridas Mundhra scandal.

Krishnamachari, further alienating Feroze from Jawaharlal.

Feroze died soon afterwards from a second heart attack in 1960.

* September 9 – Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player ( d. 2005 )

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.

Feroze 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 sanitarium at Badenweiler and finally at Laussane, where he was at her bedside when she died on 28 February 1936.

In the following years, Indira and Feroze grew closer to each other while in England.

Feroze and Indira settled in Allahabad with their two young children, and Feroze became Managing Director of The National Herald, a newspaper founded by his father-in-law.

Gandhi's yoga guru, Dhirendra Brahmachari, helped her in making certain decisions and also executed certain top level political tasks on her behalf, especially from 1975 to 1977 when Gandhi " dissolved Parliament, declared a state of emergency and suspended civil liberties.

Rajiv Gandhi led the Congress to a major election victory in 1984 soon after, amassing the largest majority ever seen in the Indian Parliament, the Congress party winning 411 seats out of 542.

His son Rahul Gandhi is a Member of Parliament and the General Secretary of All India Congress Committee.

Virachand Gandhi ( 1864 – 1901 ) from Mahuva represented Jains at the first World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 and won a silver medal.

Gandhi represented Jains in Chicago because the Great Jain Saint Param Pujya Acharya Vijayanandsuri, also known as Acharya Atmaram, was invited to represent the Jain religion at the first World Parliament of Religions.

He served as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India, from 12 May 1986 to 11 May 1992, after being nominated by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

His paintings of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, adorn the historic Central Parliament Hall in New Delhi.

Rahul Gandhi (; born 19 June 1970 ) is an Indian politician and member of the Parliament of India, representing the Amethi constituency.

In March 2004, Gandhi announced his entry into politics by announcing that he would contest the May 2004 elections, standing for his father's former constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha, India's lower house of Parliament.

Rahul Gandhi opines that the Lokpal should be made a constitutional body and it should be made accountable to the Parliament, just like the Election Commission.

Sanjay Gandhi was also elected to the Parliament.

* Indira Gandhi National Open University is established by an Act of Indian Parliament.

Anagarika Dharmapala at the Parliament of World Religions. From left to right: Virchand Gandhi, Anagarika Dharmapala, Swami Vivekananda, and G. Bonet Maury.

Also the widow of another great-grandson Sanjay Gandhi, Mrs Maneka Gandhi as well as her son Varun Gandhi are member's of India's Parliament representing the main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ).

* Sanjay Gandhi ( son of Indira ) Member of Parliament

* Sonia Gandhi ( wife of Rajiv-Italy-born-MP current Parliament of India ): President of the Indian National Congress, Leader of the Majority

* Maneka Gandhi ( wife of Sanjay-MP current Parliament of India )

* Rahul Gandhi ( son of Rajiv Gandhi-MP current Parliament of India )

* Varun Gandhi ( son of Sanjay Gandhi )- MP current Parliament of India )