Godse (surname)

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Godse is a Marathi Brahmin surname.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi</span> 1948 murder in New Delhi, India

Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 at age 78 in the compound of Birla House, a large mansion in central New Delhi. His assassin was Nathuram Godse, a Chitpavan Brahmin from Pune, Maharashtra, a Hindu nationalist, a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu paramilitary organization as well as a member of the Hindu Mahasabha. Godse considered Gandhi to have been too accommodating to Pakistan during the Partition of India of the previous year.

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<i>Nine Hours to Rama</i> 1963 British film

Nine Hours to Rama is 1963 British-American neo noir crime film directed by Mark Robson, that follows a fictionalised Nathuram Godse in the hours before he assassinated the Indian independence leader, Gandhi, and police attempts to prevent the murder. It is based on a 1962 novel of the same name by Stanley Wolpert. The movie was written by Nelson Gidding and filmed in England and India with mainly white actors in prominent roles. It stars Horst Buchholz, Diane Baker, Jose Ferrer, and Robert Morley. It was shot in CinemaScope DeLuxe Color.

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<i>Me Nathuram Godse Boltoy</i>

Me Nathuram Godse Boltoy is a two-act play written in the Marathi language. It has been written by Pradeep Dalvi. It is based on the book May It Please You Honour written by Gopal Godse. According to Karline McLain the play "enacts Godse's defense plea" and thus "explores the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the trial of Godse from Godse's point of view.

Herbert Thomas "Tom" Reiner Jr. was an American career diplomat who, while on a posting in India from 1947 to 1949, played a key role in capturing Mahatma Gandhi's assassin, Nathuram Godse. Reiner was among those present when Godse fatally shot Gandhi at an evening prayer meeting in New Delhi on January 30, 1948. Moments after the shooting, while the attending crowd was still in shock, Reiner rushed forward, grasping Godse by the shoulders, and restraining him until military and police personnel took him away. In the days following, Reiner's action was reported in newspapers around the world.

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<i>Godse</i> (film) 2022 film by Gopi Ganesh

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gopal Godse</span> Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (died 2005)

Gopal Vinayak Godse was a Hindutva activist convicted of conspiring to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.

<i>Gandhi Godse – Ek Yudh</i> 2023 film by Rajkumar Santoshi

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<i>Godses Children: Hindutva Terror in India</i> 2011 Indian political history book by Subhash Gatade

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