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Nathuram Godse

1910 - 1949

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Nathuram Vinayak Godse (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949) () was the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. He was a Hindu nationalist from Maharashtra who 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nathuram Godse has received more than 8,868,618 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Nathuram Godse is the 34th most popular extremist (up from 36th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from India (up from 87th 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 34 out of 283. Before him are Frederick Trump, Amon Göth, Luis Carrero Blanco, Abu Nidal, Otto Ohlendorf, and Cleon. After him are Andreas Baader, H. H. Holmes, Jim Jones, Tommaso Buscetta, Peter Kürten, and Joseph Kony.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Nathuram Godse ranks 27. Before him are Dominique Pire, David Niven, Lee Byung-chul, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Helenio Herrera, and Archer Martin. After him are Ludwig Stumpfegger, Michel Aflaq, Samuel Barber, Kurt Meyer, Jean Anouilh, and Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Among people deceased in 1949, Nathuram Godse ranks 19. Before him are Kim Jong-suk, August Krogh, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Elton Mayo, Axel Munthe, and Angela Hitler. After him are Victor Fleming, Fyodor Tolbukhin, Sarojini Naidu, Gustav Radbruch, Henri Giraud, and Kim Koo.

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In India

Among people born in India, Nathuram Godse ranks 85 out of 1,861. Before him are Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Sher Shah Suri (1486), Samudragupta (335), Ramana Maharshi (1879), Rajendra Prasad (1884), and Lawrence Durrell (1912). After him are Pervez Musharraf (1943), Bindusara (-320), Pete Best (1941), Ram Mohan Roy (1772), Varāhamihira (505), and Patanjali (-200).

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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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