{"id":56542,"date":"2020-01-20T23:55:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T18:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=56542"},"modified":"2021-05-25T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T07:45:10","slug":"photo-of-nehru-indira-gandhi-shared-with-false-portrayal-of-father-in-law-being-yunus-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/photo-of-nehru-indira-gandhi-shared-with-false-portrayal-of-father-in-law-being-yunus-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of Nehru, Indira Gandhi shared with false portrayal of her father-in-law being “Yunus Khan”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photograph of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with his daughter Indira Gandhi and two unidentified men is being shared with the claim that they are with Indira Gandhi’s husband ‘Firoze Khan’ and her father-in-law ‘Barkat Ali’.<\/p>\n

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Posted by Aditya Mishra<\/a> on\u00a0Friday, 14 May 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

The image is quite widespread on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It has also been shared on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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Viral since 2020 with a slightly different claim<\/h4>\n

The claim<\/a>, shared by Facebook user Sukhie Rajput, last year in January is posted below. It said that the man marked in red is Indira Gandhi’s father-in-law and Feroze Gandhi’s father “Yunus Khan”.<\/p>\n

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The image was circulated by multiple users on Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> alike.<\/p>\n

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Twitter user Kapil Gupta posted<\/a> the same photograph with a claim that the bearded man is Yunus Khan, the father-in-law of Indira Gandhi, whereas the man right next to him is her husband “Firoz” Khan.<\/p>\n

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Nehru, Indra, Yunus Khan (father-in-law of Indra)& Firoz Khan (Indira’ s Husband).
\nSave it. It’s a rare photos of mixture khandan later turned to Christian. pic.twitter.com\/tuJgYz0CaZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kapil Gupta (@kapilkm20) January 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fact-check<\/h4>\n

With a reverse image search on Yandex, Alt News found that the photograph is doing the rounds on social media with a false claim. In the image<\/a>, the people standing from left to right are Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Russian artist (with beard) Nicholas Roerich and Indian diplomat Mohammed Yunus. It was clicked at Roerich estate in Kulu, India in the year 1942.<\/p>\n

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With a keyword search on Google, we found the same image posted on Wikipedia<\/a>. The source cited for the image was a book with the ISBN number (978-5-86988-179-3). A Google search of the number revealed that it pertains to the seventh volume of letters<\/a> of Elena Roerich (Helena Roerich), the wife of Nicholas Roerich.<\/p>\n

In the book, Alt News found a photograph of Nehru, Roerich and Gandhi with the same man (extreme right). He has been identified as M. Yunus. An obituary published in The Tribune<\/a>\u00a0identified Mohammed Yunus as “a veteran freedom fighter, a distinguished diplomat and a close friend of the Nehru family.”\u00a0He was the nephew<\/a> of Frontier Gandhi Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, and not Indira Gandhi’s father-in-law. It is a well-documented fact that Indira Gandhi’s father-in-law, Feroze Gandhi’s father, was Faredoon Jehangir Ghandy.<\/p>\n

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Source: Elena Roerich Letters Volume VII<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The bearded man in the photograph is Nicholas Roerich<\/a>, an eminent<\/a> 20th-century Russian painter. Roerich estate is located in Naggar, Himachal Pradesh. The estate houses the Nicholas Roerich Art Gallery. This author independently visited the Gallery in Naggar. ROERICH Nikolai Konstantinovich aka Nicholas Roerich was born in St. Petersburg in 1874. He died in Naggar in the year 1947. According to a document available in the gallery, he was a Russian artist, an archaeologist, a philosopher, a traveller and a writer, who also started a world movement to protect cultural monuments embodied in the international Roerich Pact signed in 1954.<\/p>\n