Nathuram Godse :: " Psychophony " , " Platonic " or - " Balanced Headed- " who Saved India from Brink of Disaster
Perhaps no Indian amongst the
ordinary citizen that has ever lived in India would have been remembered so
many a times in a doffing way as this man whom we call him Nathuram Godse is
remembered No sooner the elections maybe the state or the national election
comes this name is repeated by many-and-many leaders differently and
differently to proclaim that this man was the worst ever to have been born at
India and that there would not be anyone who would be as worst as this man if
India has to produce and ever produce the worst man as an Indian here in the
land of India.
The question that arises is, was
Nathuram Godse such a demon that was ever born in India? It is very imperative
to know everything about this man and this article is a small attempt to
furnish all about this man who is the killer of Mahatma Mohanchand Karamdas
Gandhi who was the father of India as we call him the father of the Nation.
Well let us try to figure out everything about this man:
His Birth
It is a debatable question as to
when was he born and at what date But this is a proven record that he was born
at Baramati at Maharashtra He was the fourth out of the total of five siblings
that were taken to the Godse family which then resided at Baramati Before he
was born his two brothers and a sister all had passed away in their early
childhood The family in spite of their best attempt could not save those
siblings that were born to them.
Hence when Nathuram Godse was
born, he was brought up like a girl Some astrologer had advised the family members
that if this child was to live long he ought to be brought up like a girl and
this ought to be maintained till it was necessary for them for doing it Thus he
was brought up like a girl His nose was drilled. Nathhu was pierced into that
because of the Nathani later he was called Nathhu, which means the ornament of
the nose. He was named as Ramchandra by his family members and the name Ram
then was added to it He became Natthuram, and that is how his name was Nathuram
who was Ramchandra Godse by all mean and by all standard.
There was a brother that came to
his family after so many years that he survived living his life as a girl in
the initial year When that was born the astrologers again advised his family
members that the worst of the phase of his childhood is over and that he could
be brought up like a little person is brought up at India Thus came the
normalcy of leading a healthy life for this man.
Early Childhood
He was admitted in a Brahmin
school which had the medium of instruction that taught Marathi, and the studies
were basically and mostly devoted to the Brahmanism and the way that was
destructed here at India That was an influence in his mind He always stood up
against the injustice and in his school, he was thrashed up many times to speak
against the laid back system of anything, but that would not deter him from
opening his mouth for anything which was or that was laid back.
Secondly, he had to feel the pang
of leading a life of a girl even though he was a boy The agony of suffering the
worst in terms of the sarcastic remarks that were thrown on him at that stage
of his life also made him a hard man He would not tolerate the insults and the
wrongs for anything in his life. This seed was sown in his life so early as a
midget That was also something which shaped his mental aptitude. He was a born
silent listener. Still, a rebel within He would not say anything to anybody
thus keeping his cob at bay, but he would fiercely revolt when the time came up
as such to demonstrate how tough a man from the within was he.
He was brilliant in his studies,
and he was simply extraordinary in the subjects that were imparted to him as a
lesson during his studies. At the same time, at the school. However, after his
matriculation, he gave away his studies The reason was his family members could
not afford that expenditure Else he had a merely extraordinary brain.
His early days
He was hardly 15 years of age
when he joined the Samaj Sudhar-vicar, an organisation a social one then that
existed at Baramati That brought him to render his service to the cause of the
social upliftment and for the down trodden’s of India This brought him to the
notice of the Sangh and their Vicharak. He was the ground level worker for the
Sangh soon.
His work and the heart that he
poured into his work won many a praise from the ones who were elder to him in
age and as well as in seniority. He was a well-known figure within the
organisation which used to work for the cause of the social upliftment of
India.
Nathuram Godse as a tailor
In his teen his and his family
were under such a very tight spell of a terrible financial condition that he
had to switch the dresses of the RSS for his living at Pune He charged a very
nominal fees from the RSS for this On many a stage his mother refrained him to
do that a job for the RSS. She asked him to continue his studies, but he would
not listen to his mother. He would say that by doing this, he was serving the
warriors of the motherland who were involved in gaining independence for India.
His contribution to the social literature of
India
India at that time was a slave of
the British The Britishers had laid so many a rules that were piercing the
society of this country then The reforms of the Britishers who were hell-bound
into the system of conversion was something which was making the life a hell
for all these so-called the Hindi Hindu Samaj Sanstha, then, was finding it
hard to digest the forcibly applied rules especially on the Hindus who were
poor and were living absolutely at the mercies of the Britishers That was the
time he took a plunge for writing.
First job as an editor cum translator
He came into contact with
Golwalkar then who introduced him to Hegdewar Hegdewar was stunned by the kind
of knowledge he carried on many a subject that had to do with Hinduism He was
asked to do something that would awake the Hindus who were a mental slave to
the Britishers That was the time he translated along with Hegdewar many books
on Hindusim into English and many a book those were published by the Britishers
here at India to Hindi and Sanskrit It was to enlighten the Indian about the
kind of a trap that they were putting themselves into, that were laid here by
the British.
These books created terrific
ripples here at India, and it arose the general public especially the Hindus to
wake and rise to know the reality and the truth that they were unaware of thus
his piece would wake up the Hindus who were firmly saddled by the Britishers in
the darkest corner of everything in their life.
However there arose a difference
between the top-notch of the RSS and Godse Though it was he who was the real
man who converted the books into the language that I have mentioned, it was
Hegdewar who took all the credits for that This brought out the rebellion
character that was in him. He parted his way from the RSS after That is the
reason even today the RSS says that Nathuram Godse was never an RSS man for
anything or everything.
He then joined a Newspaper at
Baramati and moved to Sangli later to carry on and spread the newspaper at
almost all the part of Maharashtra His writings were piercing the Britishers
Again one of his family members got married to the family members of Vinayak
Damodar Savarkar whom we call him as Veer Sararkar thus he was related to
Savarkar who was a hardcore Hindu His cross-pollination of the ideas that he
shared with Savarkar and the ideas that he could generate of and for the
Hindu’s later made him a hard-core-Hindu This is how he became a hardcore
Hindu.
The assassination of Mahatma Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi- Why and What was the reason behind
Nathuram Godse was never in
favour of the two-nation theory But he was always harping the idea of India
being termed as the Hindu Nation and harbouring a hope that it would be Mahatma
Gandhi who would take the initiative of proclaiming India as a NATION OF THE
HINDU’S.
Gandhi took no pain to do That
formed a wrong opinion about Mahatma Gandhi at his heart This he took it in a
gruesome manner All about Hinduism that he studied and all about the Hinduism
that he learned he believed that this land should be termed as a land of the
Hindus This belief when not met in order as a national proclamation by the then
top leaders made him go insane for everything He lost his like for the Congress
then and his affection for Gandhi.
Again after that- when Gandhi
handed over the first cheque of Rs 25 crores to Mohammed Ali Jinnah when the
Nation was divided into two, he became very furious then The total reserve that
the Britishers handed over to the Indians was Rs 73 crores The population of
this country then was 41 crores The average capita to be spent on every Indian
was then at Rs 1=80 That was it.
Again for some reason Jinnah then
had invited Gandhi to Pakistan There Gandhi was to hand him over the remaining
Rs 48 crores When Jinnah had left the shore of this country what remained with
us was only Rs 48 crores Divide it amongst the Indian for their development it
worked out to be Rs 1=08 per Indian.
Why is that this man wants to be
so generous for the Pakistani Here in India we are left with nothing for our
development and there Gandhi wishes to hand over all the booty to them What
would remain for us for our development This question was that he started
putting across to every Indian through his write-ups and the words wherever he
was invited for the Sabha.
On a personal front there was
much organisation like the RSS, the organisation those were promoting the
Hinduism through the principles of Hinduism and some good Samaritans who met
Gandhi Ji and requested him to change his view, but the father of the Nation
was adamant He wanted to hand over the entire booty to the Pakistani’s This
infuriated Godse.
He took a decision then He
invited as many as six different hard-core-Hindu’s all his friends and debate
about how to stop Gandhi Ji doing all these Seeing no other plans in mind he
took a decision of slaying Gandhi Ji, whatever the cost would be. He started
from Sangli and came to Baramati to meet his parents He spoke to them all about
his plans His parents were shocked to hear these from his mouth Every word of
explanation by his parents went to the drains From Baramati he came to Nagpur
and spoke to the RSS about this His words were simple- either follow me to
Gandhi so that we request him to forgo his plan or help me to wipe away this
man from this earth The RSS were not for staining Gandhi Finding no nods from
the RSS he moved to Delhi via a flight along with his friend.
He studied all about Gandhi Ji’s
daily routine that Gandhi followed at Delhi The only way to kill him would be
go to the Sabha where he holds his prayers every day During that time anybody
could go to the Sabha where Gandhi would hold his prayers Anybody would meet
him after the Sabha and talk to him Gandhi Ji also kept himself very open to
the public for interacting with him after his prayers no security was beefed up
for his safety In spite of the Government asking him to be within the
permissible limit of the security Gandhi did not claim for any protection That
gave an open space for anybody to do anything if he or she wishes to do
anything with Gandhi This he studied very meticulously.
He needed a revolver The question
was- where to get the money to buy that He contacted a friend who was a
hardcore believer of Hinduism at Gwalior and the friend assured him of buying a
revolver for him He travelled from Delhi to Gwalior, he searched in for a
pocket revolver, got that, purchased it from the help of some Hindi-cum-Hindu
samaritan who were deadly against the principles of Mahatma Gandhi and Jinnah
as well as Pakistan, and he travelled back to Delhi.
On two consecutive days before he
assassinated Gandhi Ji, he went top the place where Gandhi would hold his
prayers, and he measured everything that he wanted to do in terms of the
execution He chose his spot and the moment that he would execute to assassinate
Gandhi.
January 30th 1948 was the day
when he assassinated Gandhi Ji A night before he went with the three friends
that he was residing at the Delhi Railway Station to give his plans a
thumbs-up, to a local Dhaba and ate the last dinner of his life amongst the
friends After the dinner the other two friends went to see a movie MAHAL
featuring Ashok Kumar and Madhubala They insisted him to accompany them for the
film, but he did not. He had purchased a book written by James Hadley Chase – a
murder thriller, and he kept on reading that book all through the night His
friends who came to the room after watching the movie asked him to retire for
the day, but he refused. He kept on reading that book- thus making his mind
very strong and sturdy as the rock or the iron He knew that he had to do a job
without any element of mistake and the first attempt would be the last one He
knew that assassinating a personality like Gandhi Ji will give no second chance
Hence that James Hadley Chase thriller was perfecting his state of mind before
everything that was in store for him to execute his planning’s properly.
On that fateful day, on January
30th 1948 he did not eat anything for the whole day He chose his time However
before embarking for the final assault and just asked a friend to supply him
some big nuts which they brought and gave it to him He ate some. Finally, he
set his feet to the place for his final act.
The prayers were to take place He
reached the spot along with his two friends Mincing his eye to his friends he
ordered them to take their position at the right from where he would shoot
Gandhi Ji The other friend who accompanied him was asked to be to his left and
behind by ablest and at least six or seven steps That was his planning.
Once he saw Gandhi Ji amidst
Rajkumari Ait Kaur and another lady who was helping Gandhi to walk to the place
of prayers he reached before Gandhi Ji, saw him, glanced at him, bent upon to
touch his feet, and then rose to send him a signal of pranam before shooting
him with three rounds of shot from a point-blank range Thus ended the life of
the father of the Nation.
He did not run away from the spot
He remained there static and poised lest the police rushed to the spot When the
police rushed to him he gave him to the police He was sent to jail and was
treated with electrocutions and electrical shocks That also did not deter him
or make him uneasy He was tried out and was allowed to explain why did he
commit such a dastardly” murder He always replied that If Gandhi did not give
Jinnah those Rs 25 crores and would not have laid a plot to hand him the other
Rs 48 crores he would not have killed the father of the Nation at all.
All he kept on saying at every
minute of the trial was, “I killed him to save India from poverty from where
India could not have recovered from else I had nothing against him.”
He was hanged at Ludhiana Some
author says that he was hanged at some other jail at Punjab Well the fact is he
was hanged until death There were two or three mercy petition that was thrown
to the Government of India to a least change his death order to the lifetime
jail and imprisonment, but that fell into the deaf ears of Pandit Nehru and
Sardar Patel.
Life of his family member after his death
After his death, his family
members were tortured mentally like anything One of his family member who was
with the Reserve bank of India was never considered for any promotion His other
family members were not allowed to enrol themselves to the school or Colleges
to continue their studies Many of the woman folks who were related to him as
relatives were not married. Most of them remained spinsters in their life.
So much so that one of his very
distant relative who was trying to make a mark for herself in the arena of
modelling and film was not given any place and consideration to move ahead in
that field with gusto or anything.
Inference
It is over 71 years that this man
has been hanged. He was given and handed the WORST of the punishment at the
jail. He took that with pride He would always tell the jailor that they were
doing their’s duty as he had done his duty by killing Gandhi That he was not
repenting for his act why should the jail authorities regret for the same many
would shed some tears when he was subjected to those harsh cruelties. Still, he
would console them Never did he feel the pain about anything- be it staining
the Mahatma or at any moment that he was subjected to cruelties at jail The
electrical shocks too did not bother him much.
It is just that we have to stop
making him a piece to garner the votes during the election There are many an
instance where slaying has been done by the politicians saddled in the power –
and those are even heinous than the one which he did that He shot point-blank
The one’s who have committed to that has given many a peaceful pain and drove
them to death itching many wounds on their body This also ought to be kept in
mind.
Killing or slaying anybody is not
right, But he saved India by going into the utmost rubbles of poverty Once for
all it needs to be stopped using his name for to garner the franchise and the
votes He might have been a villain or a bad man But those who have killed the
others for their political gain- are they anything better than this man.
Assassination for that matter has
never changed the history of the politics or the world This also will never
However here has to be an end to using his name during the time of politics and
now every injustice or the discrimination that is meted out to his family after
71 years of the assassination of the father of the Nation has to be stopped He
received his punishment Why should the other members of his family receive that
In politics- India has many like Nathuram Godse who are still roaming free or
are at large.
Comments from Christina- Martin Student of History, University of Prague and a Journalist
ReplyDeleteHaving studied the history of India and the Indian leaders I always have found that some of the Indian leaders have been so highly described in the book of History but their ground work was just opposite to what has been written in the books. On the contrary some of the Indian revolutionaries have always been painted and written wrongly The political parties have no moral right to publish the books about any of the Indian leaders and the revolutionaries in a wrong manner. Print the real stories and give it to the public to read Let them make their assessment about them rather than the political parties making the same