Nathuram Godse vs. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Nathuram Godse
1910 – 1949
Nathuram Vinayak Godse was an Indian Hindu nationalist and political activist who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi. He 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.
"‘140. So strong was the impulse of my mind that I felt that this man should not be allowed to meet a natural death so that the world may know that he had to pay…"
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
1883 – 1966
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was an Indian politician and ideologue. Savarkar developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva while confined at Ratnagiri in 1922. The prefix "Veer" was given by himself when he penned his own biography under the pseudonym Chitragupta.
"Down to the day of Harsha... intermarriages were the order of the day."
Connections
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