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Nathuram Godse

1910 - 1949

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Nathuram Vinayak Godse (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949) () was an Indian Hindu nationalist and political activist who was the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. He shot Gandhi in the chest three times at point blank range at a multi-faith prayer meeting in Birla House in New Delhi on 30 January 1948. Godse was a member of the political party, the Hindu Mahasabha; and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu paramilitary volunteer organization; and a popularizer of the work of his mentor Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who had created the ideology of Hindutva. Godse had two unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi in 1944 before he succeeded the third time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nathuram Godse is the 47th most popular extremist (down from 34th in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from India (down from 85th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Extremist.

Nathuram Godse was a Hindu nationalist who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Nathuram Godse ranks 47 out of 283. Before him are Otto Ohlendorf, Andreas Baader, Issei Sagawa, Peter Kürten, Nedeljko Čabrinović, and George Habash. After him are Joseph Kony, Jim Jones, Sawney Bean, William Kemmler, Abu Nidal, and Mohamed Atta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Nathuram Godse ranks 41. Before him are William Shockley, Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Edda Mussolini, Jean Anouilh, Benzion Netanyahu, and Joseph Kasa-Vubu. After him are Tjalling Koopmans, Luise Rainer, António de Spínola, Pierre Schaeffer, Ne Win, and Erich Kempka. Among people deceased in 1949, Nathuram Godse ranks 23. Before him are Axel Munthe, Angela Hitler, Elton Mayo, Victor Fleming, Edward Stettinius Jr., and Fyodor Tolbukhin. After him are Kim Koo, Félix d'Herelle, Henri Giraud, Marcel Cerdan, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, and Aleksandra Ekster.

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In India

Among people born in India, Nathuram Godse ranks 140 out of 1,861. Before him are Vyjayanthimala Bali (1936), Ramanuja (1017), Rajendra Chola I (1000), Cliff Richard (1940), Mahinda (-285), and Vātsyāyana (300). After him are Sambhaji (1657), Sanghamitta (-281), Chandrakirti (600), Akshay Kumar (1967), Varāhamihira (505), and C. N. R. Rao (1934).

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Among EXTREMISTS In India

Among extremists born in India, Nathuram Godse ranks 1. After him are Dawood Ibrahim (1955), and Hardeep Singh Nijjar (1977).

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