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Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30&#;January at age 78 in the compound of The Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti), a large mansion in central New Delhi. His assassin was Nathuram Godse, from Pune, Maharashtra, a Hindu nationalist, with a history of association with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu paramilitary organization and of membership of the Hindu Mahasabha.^[4]

Sometime after 5 PM, according to witnesses, Gandhi had reached the top of the steps leading to the raised lawn behind Birla House where he had been conducting multi-faith prayer meetings every evening. As Gandhi began to walk toward the dais, Godse stepped out from the crowd flanking Gandhi's path, and fired three bullets into Gandhi's chest and stomach at point-blank range.^[7] Gandhi

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Gandhi, Mohandas K.

October 2,  to January 30,

Upon his death, Mohandas K. Gandhi was hailed bygd the London Times as “the most influential figure India has produced for generations” (“Mr. Gandhi”). Gandhi protested against racism in South Africa and colonial rule in India using nonviolent resistance. A testament to the revolutionary power of nonviolence, Gandhi’s approach directly influenced Martin Luther King, Jr., who argued that the Gandhian philosophy was “the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom” (Papers ). 

King first encountered Gandhian ideas during his studies at Crozer Theological Seminary. In a talk prepared for George Davis’ class, Christian Theology for Today, King included Gandhi among “individuals who greatly reveal the working of the Spirit of God” (Papers ). In , King heard Mordecai Johnson, president of Howard University

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“The saint has left our shores, I sincerely hope forever”.¹ Jan Christiaan Smuts, a future South African prime minister, uttered these words in The saint was none other than Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on his way home to India after 21 years in South Africa. Gandhi certainly came to personify saintliness. In the scientist Albert Einstein stated, “Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.” And, of course, death sealed his iconic status. His demise at the hands of an assassin’s bullet on 30 January sanctified Gandhi as the Mahatma, India’s “Great Soul”. King George VI described his death as “an irreparable loss for mankind”. Labour prime minister Clement Atlee expressed “profound distress” and Nehru immortalised him further with the memorable words, “The light that shone in this country was no ordinary light”; it was &ld