The Three Pistol Shots Fired Into Mohandas Gandhi at a Delhi Prayer Meeting on 30 January 1948 by a Hindu Nationalist Who Believed Gandhi Had Conceded Too Much to Pakistan
Mohandas Gandhi was shot dead at 5:17 p.m. on 30 January 1948 in the garden of Birla House, New Delhi, by Nathuram Godse. Godse fired three rounds at point-blank range. Gandhi died within 30 minutes. Godse was a Hindu nationalist activist who blamed Gandhi for the August 1947 Partition concessions to Muslim Pakistan.
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