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The man who killed Mahatma Gandhi : understanding the mind of a murderer
Title
The man who killed Mahatma Gandhi : understanding the mind of a murderer / Koenraad Elst ; with a foreword by Gautam Sen.
ISBN
9781495504402
1495504409
Publication
Lewiston, New York ; Lampeter, Wales : Edwin Mellen Press, [2016]
Physical Description
xi, 295 pages ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 26, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Biography.
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