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Why I Killed Gandhi
A truth unknown to many, Nathuram Godse’s Final Address to the Court which justifies mostly his drastic actions killing father of our nation. I was facinated by his thoughts. I dont know if posted earlier or not, but posting it now so that some of my fellow pdf members can get access to his final address. Its long But worth reading.
I am posting a few paragraphs as starter.
Nathuram Godse was arrested
immediately after he assassinated
Gandhiji, based on a F. I. R. filed by
Nandlal Mehta at the Tughlak Road
Police station at Delhi . The trial,
which was held in camera, began on
May 27, 1948 and concluded on
February 10, 1949. He was sentenced
to death.
An appeal to the Punjab High Court,
then in session at Simla, did not
find favour and the sentence was
upheld. The statement that you are
about to read is the last made by
Godse before the Court on the May
5, 1949.
Such was the power and eloquence
of this statement that one of the
judges, G. D. Khosla, later wrote, “I
have, however, no doubt that had
the audience of that day been
constituted into a jury and entrusted
with the task of deciding Godse’s
appeal, they would have brought a
verdict of ‘not Guilty’ by an
overwhelming majority”
WHY I KILLED GANDHI
Born in a devotional Brahmin family,
I instinctively came to revere Hindu
religion, Hindu history and Hindu
culture. I had, therefore, been
intensely proud of Hinduism as a
whole. As I grew up I developed a
tendency to free thinking unfettered
by any superstitious allegiance to
any isms, political or religious. That
is why I worked actively for the
eradication of untouchability and the
caste system based on birth alone. I
openly joined RSS wing of anti-caste
movements and maintained that all
Hindus were of equal status as to
rights, social and religious and
should be considered high or low on
merit alone and not through the
accident of birth in a particular
caste or profession.
I used publicly to take part in
organized anti-caste dinners in
which thousands of Hindus,
Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas,
Chamars and Bhangis participated.
We broke the caste rules and dined
in the company of each other. I have
read the speeches and writings of
Ravana, Chanakiya, Dadabhai
Naoroji, Vivekanand, Gokhale, Tilak,
along with the books of ancient and
modern history of India and some
prominent countries like England ,
France , America and Russia .
Moreover I studied the tenets of
Socialism and Marxism. But above all
I studied very closely whatever Veer
Savarkar and Gandhiji had written
and spoken, as to my mind these
two ideologies have contributed
more to the molding of the thought
and action of the Indian people
during the last thirty years or so,
than any other single factor has
done.
All this reading and thinking led me
to believe it was my first duty to
serve Hindudom and Hindus both as
a patriot and as a world citizen. To
secure the freedom and to safeguard
the just interests of some thirty
crores (300 million) of Hindus would
automatically constitute the freedom
and the well-being of all India , one
fifth of human race. This conviction
led me naturally to devote myself to
the Hindu Sanghtanist ideology and
programme, which alone, I came to
believe, could win and preserve the
national independence of
Hindustan , my Motherland, and
enable her to render true service to
humanity as well.
Since the year 1920, that is, after
the demise of Lokamanya Tilak,
Gandhiji’s influence in the Congress
first increased and then became
supreme. His activities for public
awakening were phenomenal in their
intensity and were reinforced by the
slogan of truth and non-violence
which he paraded ostentatiously
before the country. No sensible or
enlightened person could object to
those slogans. In fact there is
nothing new or original in them..
They are implicit in every
constitutional public movement. But
it is nothing but a mere dream if
you imagine that the bulk of
mankind is, or can ever become,
capable of scrupulous adherence to
these lofty principles in its normal
life from day to day....please visit the link for continueing further.
A truth unknown to many, Nathuram Godse’s Final Address to the Court which justifies mostly his drastic actions killing father of our nation. I was facinated by his thoughts. I dont know if posted earlier or not, but posting it now so that some of my fellow pdf members can get access to his final address. Its long But worth reading.
I am posting a few paragraphs as starter.
Nathuram Godse was arrested
immediately after he assassinated
Gandhiji, based on a F. I. R. filed by
Nandlal Mehta at the Tughlak Road
Police station at Delhi . The trial,
which was held in camera, began on
May 27, 1948 and concluded on
February 10, 1949. He was sentenced
to death.
An appeal to the Punjab High Court,
then in session at Simla, did not
find favour and the sentence was
upheld. The statement that you are
about to read is the last made by
Godse before the Court on the May
5, 1949.
Such was the power and eloquence
of this statement that one of the
judges, G. D. Khosla, later wrote, “I
have, however, no doubt that had
the audience of that day been
constituted into a jury and entrusted
with the task of deciding Godse’s
appeal, they would have brought a
verdict of ‘not Guilty’ by an
overwhelming majority”
WHY I KILLED GANDHI
Born in a devotional Brahmin family,
I instinctively came to revere Hindu
religion, Hindu history and Hindu
culture. I had, therefore, been
intensely proud of Hinduism as a
whole. As I grew up I developed a
tendency to free thinking unfettered
by any superstitious allegiance to
any isms, political or religious. That
is why I worked actively for the
eradication of untouchability and the
caste system based on birth alone. I
openly joined RSS wing of anti-caste
movements and maintained that all
Hindus were of equal status as to
rights, social and religious and
should be considered high or low on
merit alone and not through the
accident of birth in a particular
caste or profession.
I used publicly to take part in
organized anti-caste dinners in
which thousands of Hindus,
Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas,
Chamars and Bhangis participated.
We broke the caste rules and dined
in the company of each other. I have
read the speeches and writings of
Ravana, Chanakiya, Dadabhai
Naoroji, Vivekanand, Gokhale, Tilak,
along with the books of ancient and
modern history of India and some
prominent countries like England ,
France , America and Russia .
Moreover I studied the tenets of
Socialism and Marxism. But above all
I studied very closely whatever Veer
Savarkar and Gandhiji had written
and spoken, as to my mind these
two ideologies have contributed
more to the molding of the thought
and action of the Indian people
during the last thirty years or so,
than any other single factor has
done.
All this reading and thinking led me
to believe it was my first duty to
serve Hindudom and Hindus both as
a patriot and as a world citizen. To
secure the freedom and to safeguard
the just interests of some thirty
crores (300 million) of Hindus would
automatically constitute the freedom
and the well-being of all India , one
fifth of human race. This conviction
led me naturally to devote myself to
the Hindu Sanghtanist ideology and
programme, which alone, I came to
believe, could win and preserve the
national independence of
Hindustan , my Motherland, and
enable her to render true service to
humanity as well.
Since the year 1920, that is, after
the demise of Lokamanya Tilak,
Gandhiji’s influence in the Congress
first increased and then became
supreme. His activities for public
awakening were phenomenal in their
intensity and were reinforced by the
slogan of truth and non-violence
which he paraded ostentatiously
before the country. No sensible or
enlightened person could object to
those slogans. In fact there is
nothing new or original in them..
They are implicit in every
constitutional public movement. But
it is nothing but a mere dream if
you imagine that the bulk of
mankind is, or can ever become,
capable of scrupulous adherence to
these lofty principles in its normal
life from day to day....please visit the link for continueing further.
