Gandhi's assassin : the making of Nathuram Godse and his idea of India
Jha, Dhirendra K.2023
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Dhirendra Jha's deeply researched history places Nathuram Godse's life as the juncture of the dangerous fault lines in contemporary India: the quest for independence and the rise of Hindu nationalism. On a wintry Delhi evening on 30th January 1948, Nathuram Godse shot Gandhi at point-blank range, forever silencing the man who had delivered independence to his nation. 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 Drawing from previously unpublished archival material, Jha challenges the standard account of Gandhi's assassination, and offers a view on the making of independent India.
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Author:
Jha, Dhirendra K., author
Imprint:
London : Verso, 2023.
Collation:
352 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781804292976 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
954.04092954.0409B
Language:
English
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BRN:
2326153
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