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The Man Who Killed Mahatma Gandhi: Understanding the Mind of a Murderer

The Man Who Killed Mahatma Gandhi: Understanding the Mind of a Murderer


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Table of Contents:
Foreword by Gautarn Sen. Author's Preface. Chapter 1: The Murder of Mahatma Gandhi and Its Consequences. Chronicle of the Mahatma murder. The verdict. Political consequences. A Tabooed document. Facts of the murder plot. Chapter 2: Nathuram Godse's Background. Nathurarn Godse's case. Revenge on Godse's case. Godse the Swayamsevak. The Godse brothers" testimony on the RSS. Inspired by Savarkar. Disappointed with Savarkar. A rumor about Godse and Savarkar. Godse the Gandhian. Punishing his own kind. Godse the secularist. Chapter 3: Critique of Gandhi's Policies.

About the Author :
Dr. Koenraad Elst was born in Leuven, Belgium, into a Flemish (i.e. Dutch- speaking Belgian) Catholic family. He graduated in Philosophy, Chinese Studies and Indo-Iranian Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven. During a stay at the Benares Hindu University, he discovered India's communal problem and wrote his first book about the budding Ayodhya conflict. While establishing himself as a columnist for a number of Belgian and Indian papers, he frequently returned to India to study Various aspects of its ethno-religio-political configuration and interviewed Hindu and other leaders and thinkers. His research on the ideological development of Hindu revivalism earned him his PhD. in Leuven in 1998. He has also published about multiculturalism, language policy issues, ancient Chinese history and philosophy, comparative religion, and the Aryan invasion debate.

Review :
"Historian Dr. Koenraad Elst has entered the critical debate on the murder of the Mahatma with a skillful commentary on the speech of his assassin, Nathuram Godse. .. [this] elegant book highlights the actual ideological and political cleavages that prompted Gandhi's tragic murder by Godse. . .absent in. most! Post-independence Indian historical writing. . .[it] underlies the insuperable contradictions posed by the Indian discourse on; secularism and communalism." -Dr: Gautam Sen, FormerLecturer, London School of Economics & Political Science . "Very few scholars have the range of scholarship that Dr. Elst has. He has an excellent command over the relevant scholarly literature. He also taps the non-conventional sources well and his encyclopedic knowledge of historiography and contemporary issues of Indian society/politics and history provide the ideal academic backdrop for this masterly study." -Dr. Saradindu Mukherji, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781495504402
  • Binding: Hardback
  • ISBN-10: 1495504409
  • Sub Title: Understanding the Mind of a Murderer


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