After driven out of Shantiniketan, Indira became lonely as father was busy with
politics and mother was dieing of tuberculosis in Switzerland. Playing with her
loneliness, Feroze Khan, son of a grocer named Nawab Khan who supplied wines
etc to Motilal Nehru’s household in Allahabad, was able to draw close to her.
The then Governor of Maharashtra, Dr. Shriprakash warned Nehru, that Indira was
having an illicit relation with Feroze Khan. Feroze Khan was then in England
and he was quite sympathetic to Indira. Soon enough she changed her religion,
became a Muslim woman and married Feroze Khan in a London mosque. Indira
Priyadarshini Nehru changed her name to Maimuna Begum. Her mother Kamala Nehru
was totally against that marriage. Nehru was not happy as conversion to Muslim
will jeopardize her prospect of becoming Prime Minister.
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