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$24.95
Jan 24, 2023 | ISBN 9781804292976
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Jan 24, 2023 | ISBN 9781804292990
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Praise
“Dhirendra K. Jha has anatomized, with calm resourcefulness, the politics and psychology of a fanatic. He has also written a secret and sinister history of modern India-the one we need to understand our ruinous present”
—Pankaj Mishra
“This book goes beyond the plot that resulted in Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination, which the author meticulously analyses. It is indeed highly revealing of the omnipresence of the RSS on the Indian political scene in the 1940s. If the organization did not fight British colonialism and did not contest elections, it was intimately related to Savarkar’s Hindu Mahasabha, the first Hindutva party, and, more importantly, organically linked to the Hindu Rashtra Dal, a militant body co-founded by Nathuram Godse – a man who, as Dhirendra K. Jha shows, never left the RSS”
—Christophe Jaffrelot, author of Modi’s India
“Not just a very readable and credible account of the plot and the people behind Gandhi’s murder, including a psychological analysis of his assassin, but a comprehensive study of the wider politics of the Hindu Mahasabha, the RSS and their leaders, including Savarkar, which makes it a must-read and highly relevant in today’s context”
—Mridula Mukherjee
“Although the biography of Godse is a biography of an assassin whose psychological profile might indicate his tendency towards extreme actions like political murder, it is also a story of a nation whose identity was forever mutated by the fact of British colonialism and the multiple atrocities that colonialism involved.”
—Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch
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