Nathuram Godse, a freedom fighter and revolutionary, was born in 1909.
Nathuram Vinayak Godse (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949) was Mahatma Gandhi's assassin. He was a Hindu nationalist from western India who shot Gandhi three times in the chest at point blank range on January 30, 1948, during a multi-faith prayer meeting at Birla House in New Delhi. Godse was a member of the Hindu Mahasabha political party; a former member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu paramilitary volunteer organisation; and a popularizer of his mentor Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's work, who had created the ideology of Hindutva and ridiculed the philosophy of nonviolence more than two decades earlier. During the partition of India in 1947, Godse believed Gandhi favoured the political demands of British India's Muslims.
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