Feroze first proposed to Indira in 1933, but she and her mother rejected it, putting forward that she was too young, only 16.[15] He grew close to the Nehru family, especially to Indira's mother Kamala Nehru, accompanying her to the TB sanatorium at Bhowali in 1934, helping arrange her trip to Europe when her condition worsened in April 1935, and visiting her at the sanitarium at Badenweiler and finally at Lausanne, where he was at her bedside when she died on 28 February 1936.[16] In the following years, Indira and Feroze grew closer to each other while in England.