Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi | Wikipedia audio article
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Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi


00:02:06 1 Preparations
00:04:18 2 Assassination
00:04:27 2.1 20 January 1948
00:05:51 2.2 30 January 1948
00:06:02 2.2.1 Manuben Gandhi
00:09:34 2.2.2 Herbert Reiner
00:14:19 2.2.3 Other reports
00:19:10 2.2.4 Death
00:19:35 3 Motives
00:23:51 4 Trial and judgments
00:24:20 4.1 Investigation and arrests
00:24:59 4.1.1 Arrested
00:26:29 4.2 Trial and sentencing: Lower Court
00:27:20 4.3 Appeal: High Court
00:28:40 4.4 Executions
00:29:27 4.5 Censorship and judge's comments
00:30:55 5 Aftermath
00:31:03 5.1 Tributes
00:35:46 5.2 Criticism
00:37:28 5.3 Riots
00:38:00 6 Previous attempt in 1934
00:38:58 7 Legacy
00:40:25 8 In media
00:42:16 9 See also



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Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 in the compound of Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti), a large mansion. His assassin was Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a right-wing advocate of Hindu nationalism, a member of the political party the Hindu Mahasabha, and a past member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which he left in 1940 to form an armed organization. Godse had planned the assassination. Gandhi had just walked up the low steps to the raised lawn behind Birla House where he conducted his multi-faith prayer meetings every evening.  Godse stepped out from the crowd flanking the path leading to the dais and into Gandhi's path, firing three bullets at point-blank range. Gandhi instantly fell to the ground. Gandhi was carried back to his room in Birla House from where a representative emerged some time later to announce that he had died.
The Gandhi murder trial opened in May 1948 in Delhi's historic Red Fort, with Godse the main defendant, and his collaborator Narayan Apte and six others as the co-defendants. According to Markovits (2004), Godse tried to ...use the courtroom as a political forum by reading a long declaration in which he attempted to justify his crime. He accused Gandhi of complacency towards Muslims, blamed him for the sufferings of Partition, and generally criticized his subjectivism and pretension to a monopoly of the truth." According to J. Edward Mallot (2012), Godse blamed Gandhi for continuing to appease Muslims in such a manner "that my blood boiled and I could tolerate him no longer."The trial was rushed through, the haste sometimes attributed to the home minister Vallabhbhai Patel's desire "to avoid scrutiny for the failure to prevent the assassination." The trial was public, but the statement that Nathuram Godse gave during the trial on why he killed Gandhi was immediately banned by the Indian government. Godse and Apte were sentenced to death on 8 November 1949. They were hanged in the Ambala jail on 15 November 1949.