In a remarkably coherent statement in court, Godse explained that he had killed Gandhi in order to cleanse India of such ''old superstitious beliefs'' as the ''power of the soul, the inner More than 30 years later, a few months after India's long-delayed independence in 1947, Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu Brahmin named Nathuram Godse, who turned out to have been one of the many rationalists exasperated and bewildered by Gandhi. ''The saint has left our shores, I hope, forever.'' Jan Smuts, was relieved enough to write to a friend, When he finally left SouthĪfrica in 1914, after having organized a small and frequently trampled-upon Indian minority into a significant political force, his greatest Afrikaner adversary, Gen. Two extraordinary decades during which he moved from being the resentful victim of local racial humiliations to the initiator of a wholly new kind of political activism based upon nonviolence. He planned to spend a year he ended up spending N 1894, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrived in South Africa as a young shiftless lawyer from India. Many of Gandhi's fellow Indians thought he was out of date in an independent India.
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