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MAHATMA GANDHI.

Currency:GBP Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 GBP Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 GBP
MAHATMA GANDHI.
A Mahatama Gandhi signed cutting. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated in the garden of the former Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti) at 5:17 pm on 30 January 1948. Accompanied by his grandnieces, Gandhi was on his way to address a prayer meeting, when his assassin, Nathuram Godse, fired three bullets from a Beretta 9 mm pistol into his chest at point-blank range. Godse was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi guilty of favouring Pakistan and strongly opposed the doctrine of nonviolence. Godse and his co-conspirator were tried and executed in 1949


Condition:
Good.