Let's Kill Gandhi!: A Chronicle of His Last Days, the Conspiracy, Murder, Investigation, Trials and the Kapur Commission

ON 30 JANUARY 1948, MAHATMA GANDHI, FATHER OF A NEWLY LIBERATED INDIAN
NATION, WAS MURDERD BY A HINDU EXTREMIST

Since then, many lies have been passed off as truths; half-truths have been mixed with true incidents
and passed off as whole truths. ‘Gandhi was responsible for the Partition’; ‘Gandhi favoured Muslims
and abandoned Hindus’; ‘Killing Gandhi was the only way to save Hindu India’; ‘Murdering Gandhi
was an act of Patriotism’; ‘Gandhi gifted ₹55 Crores (₹550 Million) to Pakistan’—these were, and
even today are, some of the statements propagated by Hindu extremist organizations and worshippers
of Godse, the murderer.

This book is written to put the facts straight. Written by Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi,
Let’s Kill Gandhi! deals with facts gleaned from a lot of verbal history, from books, archival material,
from the records of the murder trial and investigations, from books written by the defence lawyers and
judges, from newspaper reports, the report of the J.L. Kapur Commission of Inquiry and from what
Tushar grew up hearing in the family.

Never in the history of political murders has such a nexus of human errors, procedural foul-ups,
and sheer apathy colluded to allow a bunch of bungling amateurs to succeed so easily. This book is a
chronicle of the conspiracy that goes beyond Nathuram Godse, Gandhi’s murderer.