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Indira Gandhi: My Truth

Emmanuel Pouchpadass and Indira Gandhi

Pouchpadass, Emmanuel; Indira Gandhi;

Indira Gandhi: My Truth

Editions Stock (french?) 1980 / Grove Press, NY 1982

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based on a "long series of interviews" starting on the "tenth anniv of Mrs
G's installation as PM of India.

Excerpts

   One reason for choosing Oxford was that Feroze was in England. [She took
the Oxford exams while in the sixth form at the Badminton School in
Bristol.  Feroze at the time was at the LSE. ]

   I had met Feroze in Allahabad when he joined the movement.  He became a
frequent visitor to our house.  He had proposed to me already before I went
to Shantiniketan, but I had said no.  He told my mother about this... I was
ubset that he should have.  ...

   I was returning from India and Feroze came to join me in Paris. I had gone
first, and F joined me there.  That's when I finally said yes, on the steps
of Montmartre.  But we didn't tell anyone.  [In 1936?]  - p.34-35

	[p.42-3: Feroze Gandhi was very fair, and in S. Africa was mistaken
	 as white. So was IG.]

For more on her early life, and the marriage with Firoz, see these
excerpts) from Tariq Ali's An India Dynasty (1985), and also
Shashi Bhushan's biography of Feroze Gandhi  (1977).


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009