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Gandhi’s Assassin

The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India

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Gandhi’s Assassin

Written by: DHIRENDRA JHA

Narrated by: Kulvin Suri

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Dhirendra K. Jha has anatomized, with calm resourcefulness, the politics and psychology of a fanatic. He has also written a secret and sinister history of modern India-the one we need to understand our ruinous present-PANKAJ MISHRAA confirmed bigot and an oddball, the man who became Gandhi's assassin was something of a miracle baby. Born to Brahmin parents after several stillbirths, Nathuram Godse started off as a child mystic. However, success in everything serious-studies or work-eluded him. The expectations and frustrations that mark the path of young men who cannot cope with the changing tides form the basis of Dhirendra K. Jha's spectacular study of this disaffected youth. Godse was one of hundreds, and later thousands, of young Indian men to be steered into the sheltering fold of early Hindutva. As disruptions to history evolved new social structures, these men were caught by ideologues, cocooned in a community, and coached and readied for action.Gandhi's Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India lays bare Godse's relationship with the organizations that influenced his world view and gave him a sense of purpose. The book draws out the gradual hardening of Godse's resolve, and the fateful decisions and intrigue that eventually led to, in the chaotic aftermath of India's independence in 1947, Mahatma Gandhi's assassination. On a wintry Delhi evening on 30 January 1948, Godse shot Gandhi at point-blank range, forever silencing the great man. Godse's journey to this moment of international notoriety from small towns in western India is, by turns, both riveting and wrenching.Drawing from previously unpublished archival material, Jha challenges the sanitization of Gandhi's assassination, and offers a stunning view on the making of independent India.

DHIRENDRA JHAKulvin SuriRandom House Audio

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The portrayal of Godse evokes a gamut of emotions — horror at the coldbloodedness of Gandhi’s murder, puzzlement at Godse ‘s obsession with Bharat Varsha which includes not just physical borders but also his definition that predicates Hindu Rashtra, the chilling nature of his fundamentalist convictions and so on. This is also the story of not one but many layered several betrayals — throughout the narrative — with the grand betrayal revealing itself at the very end. The book is an excellent read especially for those who do not know much about the antecedents of those promoting a Hindu Rashtra