WHY THEY KILLED GANDHI UNMASKING THE IDEOLOGY AND THE CONSPIRACY

<p>Description</p><p>Three bullets were shot into the chest of Mahatma Gandhi by a certain</p><p>Nathuram Godse on the evening of 30 January 1948. His true motivations</p><p>however are today actively obscured and his admirers sit in the Indian</p><p>parliament as members of the ruling establishment. This book is a timely</p><p>effort to remind us that Gandhi's killing was not a random act of a mindless</p><p>killer. It was the culmination of a cold-blooded conspiracy.</p><p>The men who stood trial for the murder of Gandhi claimed that they were</p><p>acting for a stronger more united India. Their 78-year-old peace-loving target</p><p>they felt was the single biggest impediment to achieving that goal. They accused</p><p>him of dishonesty and treachery; he was blamed for the Partition of India for</p><p>'appeasing' Muslims; and condemned for 'fail[ing] in his duty' to the people of</p><p>this nation. To them Gandhi had to die because 'there was no legal machinery</p><p>by which such an offender could be brought to book'. Do any of the accusations</p><p>have any claim to truth whatsoever? If not what then was the actual intention</p><p>that these arguments made by Godse were attempting to hide? And was V.D.</p><p>Savarkar among others involved in the conspiracy?</p><p>Ashok Kumar Pandey's Why They Killed Gandhi translated from the celebrated</p><p>Hindi original lays bare the facts of the murder and offers a passionate</p><p>defence of the Mahatma and his politics while simultaneously delivering a</p><p>trenchant polemic against the ideology of bigotry and perpetual violence that</p><p>killed him.</p><p><br></p>