Indira Gandhfemalei

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noncooperation. The family also supported Gandhi’s policy of promoting domestic cottage industries by boycotting all foreign goods(Jayakar 67-68).
Motilal’s involvement with the Congress made his home the hub of the freedom movement. It became the place where earnest, khadi-clad men came and went at all hours of the day and night; it became a place that rang with drafts, declarations, and debates. Indira absorbed the tension and excitement of those days and became a quiet, serious child, fired by a sense of mission she did not quite understand(Currimbhoy 31).
Even the games Indira played had to do with politics. Her dolls were divided into freedom fighters. who formed picket lines, and British soldiers, who clubbed them on the head and ragged them to off to jail. Her aunt remembers her out on the porch, eyes burning, arms dramatically outstretched, playing Joan Of Arc leading her people to freedom. By the time she was twelve, Indira was making a strong and real ...

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died. Her mother was only thirty-six, and Indira was devastated(Sahgal 106).

When Indira was in England, she was often seen with another young foreign student, Feroze Gandhi. Feroze had been a frequent visitor to the Nehru household. After Kamala’s death, Indira had found herself drawn towards Feroze. Indira’s family, however, did not welcome the news that Indira planned to marry Feroze. Jawaharal Nehru, in fact strongly opposed the match, in spite of the fact that Indira and Feroze had been friends for many years. He was not considered a suitable mate for Indira(Currimbhoy 62).

Feroze Gandhi had the same surname as Mohandas Gandhi, however, he came from a very ...

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