Feroze Gandhi (born Feroze Jehangir Ghandy 1912 – 1960) was an Indian freedom fighter, politician and journalist.
Gandhi published the newspapers The National Herald and The Navjivan. He served as a member of the provincial parliament between 1950 and 1952, and later a member of the Lok Sabha, the Lower House of India's parliament.
Gandhi's wife, Indira Nehru (daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India), and their elder son Rajiv were both prime ministers of India.
Feroze Jehangir Ghandy was born to a Parsi family in Bombay in 1912. In the early 1920s, after the death of his father, Feroze and his mother moved to Allahabad.
Feroze met Kamala Nehru and Indira among the women demonstrators of the Vanar Sena, a wing of Congress Freedom fighters formed in 1930, picketing outside Ewing Christian College. When Kamala fainted under the heat of the sun, Feroze went to comfort her.
Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, Feroze changed the spelling of his surname from "Ghandy" to "Gandhi" and abandoned his studies to join the Independence movement. He was imprisoned in 1930, along with Lal Bahadur Shastri (the 2nd Prime Minister of India), head of Allahabad District Congress Committee, and lodged in Faizabad Jail for nineteen months. Soon after his release, he was involved with the agrarian no-rent campaign in the United Province (now Uttar Pradesh) and was imprisoned twice, in 1932 and 1933, while working closely with Nehru.
Feroze first proposed to Indira in 1933, but she and her mother Kamala, rejected it, putting forward that she was too young, only 16. They married in March 1942 according to Hindu rituals at Anand Bhavan.
Indira's father Jawaharlal Nehru opposed her marriage and approached Mahatma Gandhi to dissuade the young couple, but to no avail. The couple were arrested and jailed in August 1942, during the Quit India Movement less than six months after their marriage. He was imprisoned for a year in Allahabad's Naini Central Prison. The following five years were of comfortable domestic life and the couple had two sons, Rajiv and Sanjay, born in 1944 and 1946, respectively.
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, Jawaharlal Nehru.
Feroze won independent India's first general elections in 1952, from Rae Bareli constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
In 1957, he was re-elected from Rae Bareli. In the Parliament in 1958, he raised the Haridas Mundhra scandal involving the government controlled LIC insurance company. This was a huge embarrassment to the clean image of Nehru's government and eventually led to the resignation of the Finance Minister T.T. Krishnamachari. His rift with Indira had also become public knowledge by then and added to the media interest in the matter.
His Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency seat was held by his daughter-in-law, and wife of Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi in 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019.