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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).