Gandhi’s Assassin
Dhirendra K. Jha has anatomized, with calm resourcefulness, the politics and psychology of a fanatic.
A 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.
The expectations and frustrations that mark the path of young men who cannot cope with the changing tides from the basis of Dhirendra K. Jha’s spectacular study of this disaffected youth.
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 worldview and gave him a sense of purpose.
On a wintry Delhi evening on 30 January 1948, Godse shot Gandhi at point-blank range, forever silencing the great man.
- Weight : 395
- Breadth : 13.5
- Length : 21.5
- Height : 2.5