Nathuram godse and gandhi biography

Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (1910-1949)

Nathuram Vinayak Godse (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949) (pronunciation^ⓘ) was the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi.

He was a Hindu nationalist^[1] from Maharashtra who shot Gandhi in the chest three times at point blank range at a multi-faithprayer meeting in Birla House in New Delhi on 30 January 1948.^[3][4]

Godse was a member of the political party, the Hindu Mahasabha; and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu paramilitary volunteer organization; and a popularizer of the work of his mentor Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who had created the ideology of Hindutva.^[7]

Godse had two unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi in 1944 before he succeeded the third time.^[8] After the 1948 assassination, Godse claimed Gandhi favoured the political demands of British India's Muslims during the partition of India of 1947.^[3] Soon after Mahat