Let’s Kill Gandhi: a Chronicle of Hisast Days, the Conspiracy, Murder, Investigation, Trials and the Kapur Commission

ON 30 JANUARY 1948, MAHATMA GANDHI, FATHER OF A NEWLYIBERATED INDIAN NATION, WAS MURDERD BY A HINDU EXTREMIST Since then, manyies have been passed off as truths; half-truths have been mixed with true incidents and passed off as whole truths. ‘Gandhi was responsible for Partition’; ‘Gandhi favoured Muslims and abandoned Hindus’; ‘Killing Gandhi was the only way to save Hindu India’; ‘Murdering Gandhi was an act of patriotism’; ‘Gandhi gifted ?55 crores to Pakistan’—these were, and even today are, some of the statements propagated by Hindu extremist organizations and worshippers of Nathuram Godse, the murderer. This book is written to put the facts straight. Written by Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi,et’s Kill Gandhi! deals with facts gleaned from aot of verbal history, from books, archival material, from the records of the murder trial and investigations, from books written by the defenseawyers and judges, from newspaper reports, the report of the J.L. Kapur Commission of Inquiry and from what Tushar grew up hearing in the family. Never in the history of political murders has such a nexus of human errors, procedural foul-ups, and sheer apathy colluded to allow a bunch of bungling amateurs to succeed so easily. This book is a chronicle of the conspiracy that goes beyond Nathuram Godse, Gandhi’s murderer.