The man who killed Gandhi w/ Dhirendra K. Jha

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🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dhirendra K. Jha joins PTO to talk about his book, Gandhi's Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India. We talked about Godse's childhood and how is belonging to the elite Brahmin class facilitated his shift from an anti-imperialist position in the decades before independence, to a visceral hatred of Muslims and of Gandhi, who the Hindu nationalists blamed for partition and the creation of Pakistan. We also discussed Godse's relationship with Vinayak Sawarkar - the ideological founder of Hindu nationalism and the chief early propagator of the idea of Hindu Rashtra - the concept of India as a fundamentally Hindu nation - as opposed to a secular state of all its people. We went on to talk about how Italian fascism and German Nazism inspired the RSS, and finally we discussed the increasing rehabilitation of the reputation of Godse amongst Hindu nationalists, including BJP members of the Indian parliament.

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0:00.0	The men beat on their drums.
0:11.0	The men beat on their drums. The I'm not going to be able to be. The The Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other.
0:45.3	My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Dorendra Kate Jarre.
0:49.2	We talked about his book, Gandhi's Assassin, The Making of Nataram Gotsay and his idea of India.
0:55.9	In recent days, the offices of the BBC and India have been raided by officials of the
1:00.3	Indian Tax Department. Asensibly carried out regarding the media corporation's tax affairs,
1:05.3	the raids are widely believed to be in retaliation over the BBC's two-part documentary series, India the Modi question,
1:13.0	which focused on the role that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi played in the massive
1:17.3	anti-Muslim violence that occurred in Gujarat in 2002 when Modi was chief minister of the state.
1:24.5	The BBC documentary revealed that a British government document from the time had found
1:29.2	Modi directly responsible for not stopping the killings of Muslims and said the violence had,
1:34.4	quote, all the hallmarks of genocide. Modi is, of course, today Prime Minister of India,
1:40.4	and the leader of the Hindu nationalist Baratia Janica Party, and a long-standing member of the RSS, the Rastria Swayam-Sivak Sang, and the leader of the Hindu nationalist Baratia Janice Party, and a long-standing member of the RSS,
1:46.2	the Rastria Swayam-Sivak Sang,
1:48.4	the far-right paramilitary force
1:50.1	that is intimately entwined with the BJP
1:52.6	and other Hindutva organizations.
1:55.7	Today's episode, though, focuses on a much earlier instance
1:58.6	of Hindu nationalist violence,
2:00.5	that of the murder of Mahatma
2:01.7	Gandhi by the RSS activist Nataram Godsei on the 30th of January 1948 in the compound of the
2:08.5	Burla House in central Delhi, the year after India achieved independence.
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