: ‘Gandhi’s Assassin’: How VD Savarkar converted Nathuram Godse to his anti-Muslim cause #IndiaNEWS There is no specific record about what led Godse to visit Savarkar, nor about who arranged

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‘Gandhi’s Assassin’: How VD Savarkar converted Nathuram Godse to his anti-Muslim cause #IndiaNEWS
There is no specific record about what led [Nathuram] Godse to visit [VD] Savarkar, nor about who arranged the introductory meeting. According to Godse’s brother Gopal, a silent link seemed to have developed between the Godses and Savarkar the moment they moved to Ratnagiri in 1929. “Quite unknowingly it so happened that the place where we had now gone to reside was the very place where Savarkar had stayed when he first came to Ratnagiri. Thereafter he shifted to another house at the other end of the same lane,� Gopal recounted. Savarkar was a distant figure during Godse’s early adulthood but apparently an inspirational one, for he paid his first visit to Savarkar just three days after his family shifted to Ratnagiri. Yet, most of the reliable evidence about Godse’s transformation into a fully recognised follower of Savarkar dates to the early months of 1930.Godse was nineteen when he first met Savarkar. He was thin but looked healthier than Savarkar, who was a notch taller than him. Restrained in his demeanour, Godse remained quiet and deferential, apparently mesmerised by Savarkar’s stature as a revolutionary who had returned after a decade spent in the Andamans. Godse’s political beliefs were vague at best, if they could...Read more

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