Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi—considered the father of his country and internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest (satyagraha) to achieve political and social progress—was assassinated on this day in 1948 in the compound of Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti), a large mansion in New Delhi. His assassin was Nathuram Godse, an advocate of Hindu nationalism, a member of the political party the Hindu Mahasabha, and of the Hindu nationalist volunteer organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Godse considered Gandhi to have been too accommodating to Muslims during the Partition of India of the previous year. Godse, who fired three bullets into Gandhi’s chest and abdomen at point-blank range was on November 8, 1944, sentenced to death with him main collaborator Narayan Apte. They were hanged in the Ambala jail on November 15, 1949.
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Photo Caption- Funeral procession of Mahatma Gandhi, passing the India Gate, Delhi -Wikipedia