Dhirendra Jha

Gandhi's Assassin by Dhirendra Jha is a deeply researched history that places Nathuram Godse's life at the juncture of the dangerous fault lines in contemporary India: the quest for independence and the rise of Hindu nationalism. On a wintry Delhi evening on 30 January 1948, Nathuram Godse shot Gandhi at point-blank range, forever silencing the man who had delivered independence...