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Birla House — Gandhi is killed
30 Jan 1948 — Walking to prayer, Gandhi is shot three times by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist who judged him too generous to Pakistan. “The light has gone out of our lives,” Nehru tells the country the assassin claimed to defend. Remember him.
This is one scene of Chapter 12 — The Price and the Legacy in Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948.
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