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The man who killed Mahatma Gandhi : understanding the mind of a murderer / Koenraad Elst ; with a foreword by Gautam Sen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elst, Koenraad, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948--Assassination.
- Gandhi.
- Godse, Nathuram Vinayak, 1912-1949.
- Godse, Nathuram Vinayak.
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
- Murderers.
- Assassination.
- India--Politics and government--20th century.
- India.
- Politics and government.
- Hinduism and state--India.
- Hinduism and state.
- Murderers--India--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 295 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, New York : The Edwin Mellen Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Murder of Mahatma Gandhi and its Consequences
- Chronicle of the Mahatma murder
- verdict
- Political consequences
- tabooed document
- Facts of the murder plot
- ch. 2 Nathuram Godse's Background
- Nathuram Godse's caste
- Revenge on Godse's caste
- Godse the Swayamsevak
- Godse brothers' testimony on the RSS
- Inspired by Savarkar
- Disappointed with Savarkar
- rumour about Godse and Savarkar
- Godse the Gandhian
- Punishing his own kind
- Godse the secularist
- ch. 3 Critique of Gandhi's Policies
- Genesis of Muslim separatism
- Encouragement of Muslim separatism
- Gandhi's non-violence
- Hindutva and Gandhian non-cowardice
- Gandhi vs. Krishna
- Gandhi vs. the HMS
- Gandhi and World War 2
- Why Hindu-Muslim Unity had to fail
- Gandhi's role in the failure
- Gandhi and the Khilafat
- Gandhi and Jinnah
- Quit India movement
- ch. 4 Gandhi's Responsibility for Partition
- Gandhi's Khilafat campaign
- Moplah rebellion
- Call for an Afghan invasion
- Gandhi's attack on the Arya Samaj
- Gandhi and the separation of Sindh
- Round Table Conference
- Congress greed for office
- Gandhi concedes Partition
- Failure of Quit India
- Gandhi's Hindustani
- Gandhi on the national symbols
- Gandhi on cow slaughter
- Gandhi's friendship with Suhrawardy
- Hindu and Muslim princes
- Intermediate steps toward Partition
- Cabinet Mission Plan
- Gandhi on the Partition
- ch. 5 Godse's Verdict on Gandhi
- Gandhi's character
- Other voices on Gandhi's character
- Gandhi and the Leader Principle
- Did Gandhi win India's independence?
- Gandhi vs. Bose
- Credit to the Revolutionaries
- Credit to the Moderates
- international context
- Gandhi's irrationality
- Gandhi's non-violence revisited
- Ineffectiveness of non-violence
- Inconsistency of Gandhi's non-violence
- liberation of Hyderabad
- Because I loved India more
- Godse's farewell
- ch. 6 Other Hindu Voices on Gandhi
- Aurobindo on Gandhi
- Godse's act as a strategic mistake
- Hindutva and Gandhism non-violence
- Ambedkar's support to Godse's critique
- Ram Gopal on the death of Gandhism
- Gandhi, killer of Gandhism
- Sita Ram Goel on Gandhi's merits
- Gandhi's failure, Hindu society's failure
- Gandhi and the Hindutva leadership
- Gandhi vs. secularism
- Gandhi's failure vis-a-vis Christianity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781495504402
- 1495504409
- OCLC:
- 935676624
- Publisher Number:
- 99968411306
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