Nathuram Godse

Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (1910–1949)

Nathuram Vinayak Godse IPA: [nət̪ʰuɾam ʋinajək ɡoɖse] (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949) was the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. He was a Hindu nationalist from Maharashtra who shot Gandhi in the chest three times at point blank range at a multi-faith prayer meeting in Birla House in New Delhi on 30 January 1948. Godse was a prominent populariser of the works of his mentor, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who had formulated the Hindu nationalist ideology of Hindutva.

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