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23 hours ago · Nathuram Godse was also an avid reader of the Gita. Alas, they read the sacred text differently. Godse thought that it encouraged him to buy an Italian revolver, stay in a Muslim-owned hotel in New Delhi, wear a green shirt, and shoot Gandhi at close quarters. Alas, a brave police officer in civvies caught him and pinned him down.
3 days ago · A few days later, on January 30, while he was on his way to his evening prayer meeting in Delhi, he was shot down by Nathuram Godse, a young Hindu
3 days ago · Mahatma Gandhi (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi) was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. As such, he came to be considered the father of his country.
5 days ago · Hindutva, right-wing ethno-nationalist political ideology that defines the cultural identity of India in terms of Hinduism and desires to make India an overtly Hindu nation-state. The term Hindutva was first defined in the early 1920s by Indian nationalist activist and politician Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
4 days ago · The RSS’s Nanaji Deshmukh, who has recently been awarded Bharat Ratna by the BJP regime, became a central organiser of the movement. This gave respectability to the RSS as it was still under a cloud due to its historical links to Nathuram Godse, the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi.
4 days ago · India. 29THGODSE. Updated - May 28, 2017 09:59 pm IST. Published - July 05, 2024 03:13 am IST. READ LATER. PRINT. Nathuram Godse is said to have fired three bullets at Gandhi. File. You're in...
5 days ago · Among them was Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist, who assassinated Gandhi on 30 January 1948 by firing three bullets into his chest.Gandhi's birthday, 2 October, is commemorated in India as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Nonviolence.
