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Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi

January 30, 1948 · Birla House, New Delhi

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Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi

The Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse shot Gandhi at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, five months after India's independence.

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Mahatma Gandhi Leader of the Indian independence movement, Assassinated

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