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And so, in 2013, they began the search for the gun, and thereafter, for other actors that might have been involved in this conspiracy. The gun, they tell us, was believed to have come from the Alwar armoury. It was during a conversation with “an erudite third-generation bureaucrat” that Suresh and Kotamraju came to know about an “unverifiable rumour” regarding the gun that killed Gandhi. The authors write: “In the mêlée of Hindu-Muslim conflict and the partition politics, an unnoticed war was being waged between Gandhi and the princely states, even as the ideologues of Hindutva courted the princely states, some led by Savarkar and others by Moonje.”
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Thanks to their fresh research into the case, recently published in the book The Murderer, The Monarch and The Fakir: A New Investigation of Mahatma Gandhi’s Assassination, they have a few more names and ideological interventions to present that track back to the princely states and the idea of a ‘Hindu’ nation, challenging the popular narrative about the assassination. Journalists Appu Esthose Suresh and Priyanka Kotamraju would answer in the negative. “All these facts taken together were destructive of any theory other than the conspiracy to murder by Savarkar and his group.”Įven though the report placed the Hindutva icon Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in the forefront, highlighting that he was in touch with those directly involved in the assassination plot, was anti-Gandhi rhetoric echoing only within the Hindu Mahasabha? Gandhi’s bloodied shawl, from January 30th, 1948, may bear a clear answer as to who stained it and, in the course of his trial, Godse may have answered the ‘why’ question lingering on in many minds, but what about the gun that was used to fire the bullets? What about the men who helped the assassin?Īfter examining 101 witnesses and producing 407 documents, the Jeevan Lal Kapur Commission Report from 1969 (a commission of inquiry into the conspiracy to murder Gandhi) stated:
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That a man personifying non-violence was assassinated by three violent gunshots, is an irony that India fails to recover from. Nathuram Godse on why he killed Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. There was no legal machinery by which such an offender could be brought to book and for this reason I fired those fatal shots.” “All his experiments were at the expense of the Hindus… I do say that my shots were fired at the person whose policy and action had brought rack and ruin and destruction to millions of Hindus. Thanks to their fresh research into the case, recently published in the book ‘The Murderer, The Monarch and The Fakir: A New Investigation of Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination’, Appu Esthose Suresh and Priyanka Kotamraju are able to afford us a glimpse into the anti-Gandhi rhetoric not only within the Hindu Mahasabha but also in the Princely states, especially that of Alwar. A rumour, though unverifiable, claims that the gun used by Godse to kill Gandhi came from the Alwar armoury. Khare, had close ties with Nathuram Godse. The Prime Minister of the Maharaja of Alwar, Dr. India’s greatest son passes into the Beyond ‘where never wind blows loudly’.” The Assassination of a Mahatma, the Princely States and the ‘Hindu’ Nation Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s death was announced two hours before his assassination, by a guest of the Alwar Municipal Commissioner. The noise of battle, the tumult and the shouting die. The Mahatma falls stricken to the ground. The 1971 exhibition catalogue says: “The silence of Death. Cruzo painted a second version, which was part of the 1971 exhibition. ‘Assassination: Ram! Ram!’ by Antonio Piedade da Cruz, is part of his ‘Historical Episodes in the Life of Mahatma Gandhi’ series.
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