Nathuram Godse’s speech at trial
Editor’s Note:- Produced below is Nathuram Godse’s (Mahatma Gandhi’s killer) speech at the trial. If you are a Gandhi lover, don’t read this. You will (almost) end up hating him.
“On January 13, 1948, I learnt that Gandhiji had decided to go on fast unto death. The reason given was that he wanted an assurance of Hindu-Muslim Unity… But I and many others could easily see that the real motive… [was] to compel the Dominion Government to pay the sum of Rs 55 crores to Pakistan, the payment of which was emphatically refused by the Government…. But this decision of the people’s Government was reversed to suit the tune of Gandhiji’s fast. It was evident to my mind that the force of public opinion was nothing but a trifle when compared with the leanings of Gandhiji favourable to Pakistan.
….In 1946 or thereabout, Muslim atrocities perpetrated on Hindus under the Government patronage of Surhawardy in Noakhali made our blood boil. Our shame and indignation knew no bounds when we saw that Gandhiji had come forward to shield that very Surhawardy and began to style him as ‘Shaheed Saheb’ - a martyr - even in his prayer meetings…
….Gandhiji’s influence in the Congress first increased and then became supreme. His activities for public awakening were phenomenal in their intensity and were reinforced by the slogans of truth and non-violence which he ostentatiously paraded before the country… I could never conceive that an armed resistance to the aggressor is unjust…
… Ram killed Ravan in a tumultuous fight… Krishna killed Kansa to end his wickedness… In condemning Shivaji, Rana Pratap and Guru Govind as ‘misguided patriots,’ Gandhiji has merely exposed his self-conceit… Gandhiji was, paradoxically, a violent pacifist who brought untold calamities on the country in the name of truth and nonviolence, while Rana Pratap, Shivaji and the Guru will remain enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen forever…
….By 1919, Gandhiji had become desperate in his endeavours to get the Muslims to trust him and went from one absurd promise to another… He backed the Khilafat movement in this country and was able to enlist the full support of the National Congress in that policy… very soon the Moplah Rebellion showed that the Muslims had not the slightest idea of national unity… There followed a huge slaughter of Hindus… The British Government, entirely unmoved by the rebellion, suppressed it in a few months and left to Gandhiji the joy of his Hindu-Muslim Unity… British Imperialism emerged stronger, the Muslims became more fanatical, and the consequences were visited on the Hindus…
The accumulating provocation of 32 years, culminating in his last pro-Muslim fast, at last goaded me to the conclusion that the existence of Gandhiji should be brought to an end immediately… he developed a subjective mentality under which he alone was the final judge of what was right or wrong… Either Congress had to surrender its will to him and play second fiddle to all his eccentricity, whimsicality… or it had to carry on without him… He was the master brain guiding the civil disobedience movement… The movement may succeed or fail; it may bring untold disasters and political reverses, but that could make no difference to the Mahatma’s infallibility… These childish inanities and obstinacies, coupled with a most severe austerity of life, ceaseless work and lofty character, made Gandhiji formidable and irresistible… In a position of such absolute irresponsibility, Gandhiji was guilty of blunder after blunder…
….The Mahatma even supported the separation of Sindh from the Bombay Presidency and threw the Hindus of Sindh to the communal wolves. Numerous riots took place in Karachi, Sukkur, Shikarpur and other places in which the Hindus were the only sufferers…
….From August 1946 onwards, the private armies of the Muslim League began a massacre of the Hindus… Hindu blood began to flow from Bengal to Karachi with mild reactions in the Deccan… The Interim government formed in September was sabotaged by its Muslim League members, but the more they became disloyal and treasonable to the government of which they were
a part, the greater was Gandhi’s infatuation for them…
….The Congress, which had boasted of its nationalism and socialism, secretly accepted Pakistan and abjectly surrendered to Jinnah. India was vivisected and one-third of the Indian territory became foreign land to us… This is what Gandhiji had achieved after 30 years of undisputed dictatorship, and this is what Congress party calls ‘freedom’…
….One of the conditions imposed by Gandhiji for his breaking of the fast unto death related to the mosques in Delhi occupied by Hindu refugees. But when Hindus in Pakistan were subjected to violent attacks he did not so much as utter a single word to protest and censure the Pakistan government…
Gandhi is being referred to as the Father of the Nation. But if that is so, he had failed his paternal duty inasmuch as he has acted very treacherously to the nation by his consenting to the partitioning of it… The people of this country were eager and vehement in their opposition to Pakistan. But Gandhiji played false with the people…
….I shall be totally ruined, and the only thing I could expect from the people would be nothing but hatred… if I were to kill Gandhiji. But at the same time, I felt that Indian politics in the absence of Gandhiji would surely be proved practical, able to retaliate, and be powerful with armed forces. No doubt, my own future would be totally ruined, but the nation would be saved from the inroads of Pakistan…
….I do say that my shots were fired at the person whose policy and action had brought rack and ruin and destruction to millions of Hindus… There was no legal machinery by which such an offender could be brought to book, and for this reason I fired those fatal shots…
….I do not desire any mercy to be shown to me… I did fire shots at Gandhiji in open daylight. I did not make any attempt to run away; in fact I never entertained any idea of running away. I did not try to shoot myself… for, it was my ardent desire to give vent to my thoughts in an open Court. My confidence about the moral side of my action has not been shaken even by the criticism levelled of against it on all sides. I have no doubt, honest writers of history will weigh my act and find the true value thereof some day in future.”
Anonymous said,
December 4, 2005 @ 12:19 am
i never liked gandhi.
this only cements my opinion.
the old man ruined wat could have been a bigger and better nation…
sarvesh said,
December 4, 2005 @ 3:16 pm
I would have done same thing if i was in Nathuram Godse`s place. Gandhi is the best example of how people can misdirected easily, especially Indians.
sid said,
December 4, 2005 @ 3:25 pm
i believe gandhi was a great leader who helped india get freedom but then at the time when mr.godse shot him, he had become totally anti-hindu and deserved the death he got…..although i belive it came a little late
smithkumar said,
December 4, 2005 @ 4:26 pm
gandhi did realy wrong doing this
i knew this but no body can speak openly,as if he is a nation god !!!!! i dnt even giv a shit bout him ,wat godse did was absolutely rite ,if india pakistan wud hv been 2gether ,v wud hv been a masive power til now
Anonymous said,
December 4, 2005 @ 5:10 pm
no man on earth is fit to be awarded the greatness of the like of being called mahatma, because it is but the nature of human beings to make mistakes, and the greater the man the more diastrous his mistakes will result in. For that matter every action or decision will have its own good and bad, its the two faces of the same coin. It was very sad that so much of importance was given to one man like Gandhi, he had to pay for it in the end, if not Godse it would be some one else, but the end could not be any different.
No Big Boss said,
December 4, 2005 @ 5:15 pm
I always beleieved the Gandhi (no Ji) had fucked India badly and was selfish in all decisions
sahil said,
December 4, 2005 @ 5:58 pm
All the people talking about gandhi are only making a fool of the nation as gandhi did.He did have his eccentricities.But if we mention it the politicians will not let us live.
The first time I have read Nathuram Godse’s viewpoint which I find very sane and a true nationalist.
HP said,
December 4, 2005 @ 6:00 pm
Believe me after reading this whole article ….my faith in the principles and teachings of one of the most charismatic and visionary leaders that the world has seen in the 20th century has not shaken……. this article is a classic case of brain washing of young men that is done till now…. before it was the RSS which Mr Godse was a part of and now you have the Taliban(thank heavens its destroyed) and Mr Osama…..
this is how man divides man by brainwashing him …telling him sometimes about religion….region..language….caste….
Wake up people ……..we’re all human beings and we all need to respect the fundamental human rights of EVERYONE!
rajat said,
December 4, 2005 @ 7:44 pm
i never liked gandhi n this article made me believe in my opinion much more that he was responsible for many bad things that happened in our country.
he was selfish n only bcoz he was projected as father of nation by some stupid ppl we never came to know abt wat all he has done to gr8 ppl like bhagat singh and s.c.bose. i think godse did india a huge favour n i’ll always respect him for that.
ameya said,
December 4, 2005 @ 8:15 pm
what nathuram did was for the better of nation, what it was neccesary for gandhi to do muslim appeasement to such large extent that hindus would start suffering, for e.g asking india to give 40crores to pakistan as compensation , asking hindus migrated from pakistan to vacate masjids ( it should be noted here that lacs of hindus which migrated to india after partition were given any and every place that could be given to them for shelter ,temporarily which inluded public places , religous places but ,muslims objected to this also) , asking hindus to not to even retaliate to attacks by muslims , whereas hindus were constantly killed in various riots.
gandhi thought that muslim hindu- unity is essential though it was never accepted by muslims, gandhi brought the irrelevant khilafat movement to india and the muslims in name of islam started a rampage of riots . mahatma is resposible for most of problems that india is facing.
what nathuram godse did was correct he had said that he didnt “kill” gandhi but he did ‘vadh’ of gandhi and ‘vadh’ is not crime but it is ‘ kartavya’. godse also states that all the ‘love’ gandhi had for muslims (& indirectly the hate of hindus ) was never accepted by them when mahatma gandhi was murdered it was announces on radio in pakistan that a “hindu” leader has passed away, what does it mean? it means that pakistan and muslims never accepted him really ,but gandhi always lead to spilling of hindu blood for achieving unity between hindus and muslim.
NATHURAM SAID THAT HE NEVER HAD ANY PERSONAL GRUDGE AGAINST GANDHI BUT HE DID HIS ‘ VADH’ COZ NATION WAS SUFFERING DUE TO HIS FOOLISH PRINCIPLES OF NON-VIOLENCE . HE KILLED HIM FOR THOUSANDS OF HINDUS WHO WERE SLAUGHTERED IN PAK.THOUSANDS OF WOMEN WHO WERE OPENLY RAPED .HE WAS ARDENT FOLLOWER OF GANDHI BEFORE HE STARTED MUSLIM APPEASEMENT .
IT SHUD BE NOTED THAT EVEN DEVIDAS GANDHI WHO VISITED NATHURAM GODSE AGREED WITH HIM PARTIALLY ( DEVIDAS GANDHI WAS SON OF MAHATMA GANDHI) WHAT NATHURAM DID WAS PERFECT FOR NATION OR IT IS SAID THAT HAD NOT NATHURAM KILLED GANDHI THE GANDHI FOLLOWERS THEMSELVES WOULD HAVE GOT HIM KILLED OR REMOVED GANDHI FROM HIS POSITION.
Anurag said,
December 4, 2005 @ 11:16 pm
I do not sport Gandhi or Godse in my thoughts and believe in myself!
Part of the what Nathuram said might be right. But we cannot utrightly reject all of Gandhi’s philosophy. He did great things as a father of Nation. It is the psycophantic nature of India and its people, which gave Gandhi an importance beyond his physical existence. We still suffer from that issue. Indians want some great person to lead them, so that they can avoid any netal or physical struggle and follow what their leaders say.
These are the reasons because of which we were devoid of able Prime Ministership of Sardar VallabhBhai Patel. It is also a great time pass for us to blame what others have done and what mistakes people have done for us and deciding that a particular man was right or specifically wrong.
We should get beyond this psycophantic nature and then we’ll be able to make our policies oursleves, and decide what’s best for us. Some stupid leaders tomorrow says that Sania should not wear short skirts, a group of people start supporting or oppposing him. Some stupid people opposed Khushboo’s comment and their ardent followers started doing more stupid stuff. If you have recently seen the rift between the two Thackarey brothers in Mumbai, you must have realized, till what level we as supporters of some specific leader can stoop.
We should not give importance to anybody beyond what they are worth, be it Gandhi, Nehru, Ballabhai Patel, Vajpayee, SC Bose, or Bhagat Singh. We should be open enough to discuss and decide what is acceptable and what is not (because nothing is wrong and right). I agree with few principles of Gandhi and don’t agree with some of them, but that doesn’t mean I hate Gandhi or I should hate Gandhi. We should hate our psychphantic nature and exert more pressure on our mind and body rather than following our leaders in every aspect of life.
Why do we need a leader to tell us that we should practice safe sex? Why do we need a leader to tell us to go to Polio booth with our children? Why do we need somebody else to decide our dress code? Why do we get so excited over a leader’s statement that we start burning cities, start riots or start all the stupid stuff?
I think we should better start introspection.
Anurag
cosmoquake said,
December 5, 2005 @ 1:30 am
You cannot forget a man’s greatness just because some policies he took towards the end were not fruitful. Gandhi Ji is the father of our nation and he still retains the title as most people think differently from all those who commented against him. Gandhi Ji achieved freedom in a way he calculated would be least costly in terms of Indian lives given for the cause. Armed Protest would also have got us independence but would have cost uncountable number of lives given the British (n also American) policy regarding native inhabitants of their colonies (the Americans or BRITISH settlers almost made the Native Americans or red Indians extinct). It were the bloody British who caused our split. Route your anger onto them if you want to blame anybody. Gandhi Ji also strengthened a word the whole world had forgotten at that time - PEACE, a word whose importance is now acknowledged and will probably be worship able in the future. RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE and PEACE are probably the most valued human ethics today but Gandhi Ji had foreseen their importance then. That is why he is so great and his greatness will be even more understood in the future world. I will comment next on the Godse statement.( This article is very interesting and informative but I expect the editor to retaliate or at least give moderative editorials on anti-Gandhi comments unless he is totally anti-Gandhi. Also YOU might not have existed today if freedom was achieved through violence, just because some fuckin Britisher got trigger happy and shot your forefather then ).
cosmoquake said,
December 5, 2005 @ 3:01 am
Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi were two great leaders who were in a Political Deadlock at that time. MA Jinnah had a view that if a civil war was to happen between Hindus and Muslims in a unified India, the Hindus could outnumber and overpower the Muslims ( This being a hypothetical conclusion ). With this in mind he advocated the formation of Pakistan, hoping the two communities will then live in peace. Gandhi Ji was opposed to this theory and to stop this from occurring he started the fast to stop Muslims from migrating from India to Pakistan. In the process Gandhi Ji concluded that the Muslims needed more appeasement than the Hindus for unification. He followed this policy but ended up looking unjust towards the Hindus. After the division Gandhi Ji advocated giving funds to Pakistan with two probable motives – one- that this would show to Muslims in India that we are sympathetic towards Pakistan and would diminish the Hindu-Muslim hatred here and two- this show of sympathy in the long run may break up the division. Well neither happened. The riots were run and hostility was increased due to the Kashmir issue. But also neither did all Muslims go to Pakistan ( as Jinnah wanted) nor was the division stopped (as Gandhi Ji wanted). Luck did not favor Gandhi Ji towards the end but he fought for a united India till his last breath. We don’t know who among Jinnah or Gandhi Ji was right. Maybe Nathuram Godse did what he felt was best for his country ( that I will accept). But even if Gandhi Ji became a bit eccentric towards the end he still deserved a glorious retirement for all he did rather than a bullet in his chest. But I will never accept that Gandhi Ji in any way caused the division. I STILL BELIEVE IN GANDHI JI’S MASSEGE OF A UNITED INDIA.
Ashish said,
December 5, 2005 @ 2:52 pm
We need more heroes like Nathuram Godse today to secure the future of India as a Hindu nation. Our Political heroes are eating out our own roots.
PRONIT ROY said,
December 5, 2005 @ 6:49 pm
Nathuram Godse lived a life of a failure. All a failure does is blame everyone around him for his failures. This has been the case several times in recent times. Be it the Shiv sena blaming the outsiders for taking away the jobs for the locals or the Taliban defacing the Magnificiant & Giant Buddha’s to strike a chord with the locals.
Nathuram’s commentary on Gandhi is a failure’s commentary. Someone who could not do anything in his life was really happy to see the world taking a note of him. Two moments of fame are better then a lifetime of obsecurity.
Gandhi’s credentials have been bisected by one and all and open to scrutiny for everyone. Has anyone examined Godse?
One taliban, just by defacing the buddha’s cannot degraDE the buddha, nor can one godse kill a gandhi
aditya said,
December 5, 2005 @ 7:08 pm
JAI HIND.JAI MAHARASHTRA.JAI NATHURAM GODSE.im not a marathi but still i feel proud for them.they are such a great men.may nathuram godse be well established in every indian’s heart,every hindu’s heart.and come lets unite my indian brothers and sisters ,fight against the evil islam.lets give a shradhhanjali to nathuram godse by forming our akhand hindustan.if not in our generation.but our next and so.but remember charity begins at home.so be hindu feel proud and help yr next generation to keep hatred against islam.cause they are the greatest threat to hindus,sikhs,buddhists,jains and parsis in our country.they are the threat to humanity
BABA said,
December 5, 2005 @ 10:07 pm
INDIA IS ONLY FOR HINDU ITS “HINDURASHTRA” THERE IS MILLION OF FOLLISH PPL WHO BELIVD IN GANDHI UNFORTUNATLY THE REAL HERO NOW HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN LIKE NATHU AND S C BOSS ETC. INDIAN BRAIN STILL NEED TO BE IMPROVED & NEED TO UNDERSTAND FACT ABOUT OUR INDIA THERE ARE LOTS OF FACT WHICH NEED TO EXPLORE FOR EXAMPLE ” TAJMAHAL” IS NOT BUILD BY SHAHJAHAN THIS IS ACTUALY OUR HINDUS VADIC TAMPLE AND BUILD IN 11TH CENTURY, AND THIS BIGGEST TRUTH STILL UNEXPLORED COZ OF CONGRESS WHO ALWAYS SUPPORTD TO MUSLIMS, THERE IS MANY THINGS NEED TO UNDERSTAND OUR SELF.
Anonymous said,
December 6, 2005 @ 6:42 am
hi dont know who the fuck is this pronit roy? & his knowledge of history & present political situation. i thought this article was about godse & not the bloody shivsena. there is no relation between two. apart from their origin. & who the hell is he who compares all these things to taliban, osma. bro i think u are the bloody moron & nothing else. what i think is that u cannot think as a neutral person. plz refer some histore books & the no. of people who lost their evrything in the partition.
TJ said,
December 6, 2005 @ 9:32 am
FUCK GANDHI!
Ok that felt good. Had to let it out…
Um all those of you who point out how Naturam was a brainwashed fundamentalist, have you even read what he has to say?
Does it sound like the unintelligent rant of a madman? No it’s very well thought out and reasoned and all those of you who like to claim otherwise are apologists for the Asswipe.
Do you guys realize that if it was not for Gandhi and his fricking non-violence we woulda achieved independence a lot sooner and been a much better nation today? Is non violence in a situation like this even ethical on our part?
Ask yourself-
If someone comes to your house, slaps around your parents, puts your siblings to work for them and essentially takes your home over, are you gonna let them and protest about it non-violently?
Sorry buddy, you just started something and I’m gonna finish it. I’d rather die a free man than live as a slave. THAT’S THE ATTITUDE WE SHOULD LOOK UP TO, SPARE ME THIS NON-VIOLENCE CRAP.
I am not condoning violence here, but at times like this it is the right thing to do. Standing around and letting evil happen just makes you evil, worse if its your family bearing the brunt of it.
But all you P-secs and apologists, watch it!
There is a new breed of nationalist here, following the footsteps of Shivaji, Rana Pratap, Lakshmi Bai, Bose and the heros of Tiger Hill.
You started this, we’ll finish it.
vinod said,
December 6, 2005 @ 1:43 pm
i think we live among of morons. well maybe gandhi misjudged a few things. maybe nehru was wrong. but did that imply that someone should kill him?… how would it be if i killed you for spitting on the street? or even pinching a girls backside? or watching mms clips on debonairblog ? isnt that wrong? all gandhi did was expressed his opinion.. unlike godse he never forced them on us. when he went on a hunger strike, it was for hindu-muslim unity atleast reportedly. godse had no right to kill him for it? who was he? our elected assassin? using his own words i have nothing against godse but i dont give him the right. if nathuram godse talks of gandhi so badly, i think he, by talking with respect of ram, is being contradictory. ram, who we call “maryadapurshottam” is a much bigger culprit than gandhi. what else would you call a guy who murders someone in the back for no fault of his, and then is responsible for millions of deaths just because he wants to get back his loudmouth wife and then abandons her? i think godse like most others of his kind was, as someone said in another post brainwashed. what do u guys think?
salil said,
December 9, 2005 @ 8:48 am
if gandhi wasnt there, you wouldnt be enjoyin this freedom of downloading sex clips and shag simultaneously. the britishers would still be ruling us, treating us like a herd of pigs and cows. got it? he made mistakes, i agree, but not big enough to be shot at.
AZZU said,
December 9, 2005 @ 8:00 pm
THESE COMMENTS SHOW HOW THESE HINDUS (MOST OF THEM NOT ALL) HATE US. GREAT! KEEP UP YOUR GOOD WORKS. BUT HEY STOP! DO U KNOW? THE TERRORRISTS MUST BE VERY HAPPY THATS BECAUSE YOUR HATEFULL COMMENTS HELPS THEM TO GET MORE N MORE
RECRUITEMENTS.
crazymann said,
December 10, 2005 @ 7:35 pm
you losers, didn;t losing the election mean anything to you.
an impassioned speech didn’t make godse anything less than a murderer;
what did his crap group do ? - his leader sent letter after letter begging the brits to let him out of jail, in return for which he would not oppose their rule.
you are living here; without brits ruling over you - and only one of these two gentlemen gave his life (meanig his yearts in jail, and the very end of his existence ) for that
damn you all; or better yet FUCK YOU
Anonymous said,
December 10, 2005 @ 7:45 pm
Comment for AZZU
Becaue you are like that, killers and TERRORRISTS. Killing innocent people for your unseen god and you deserve it.
Vijay said,
December 10, 2005 @ 9:37 pm
Its a shame that everything happened for the sake of religion. When people are overwhelmed with religious sentiments, humanity dies. Let us not fight over religious matters. It shouldn’t matter to us if someone is a Hindu or a Muslim. We should try and see other persons as fellow human beings first before thinking about religion. Let us not waste time and lives on issues over religion.
Dwijen said,
December 11, 2005 @ 12:27 am
If there is one person to whom we wanted to give credit for our Independence than it is not Gandhi, but it would be Adolf Hitler. Thanks to him that after second world war East India Company has not enough money to pay for the royalty to Queen to rule India and Britishers thought that it is a good time to leave India. And they have given the credit to Gandhi coz he was loyal to them. That is why at one point of time he was also awarded “Kaizaar-e-Hind” award by the Company.
I firmly believe that he has to die i just wish if he would have been killed a little early…..
So that we still have one united country(Akhand Bharat).
Anurag said,
December 12, 2005 @ 6:56 pm
It’s surprising that we are still fighting amongst ourselves and not realizing our mistakes. People commented on lots of comment from other people, but when I hot upon our own issue, nobody bothered to realize that. Looks like all of us think that we are right and want to blindfold our eyes from that truth.
Anurag
RAhul KAin said,
April 5, 2006 @ 9:25 pm
hmm..Just One Article Changed Your Mind Abt The Gandhi Ji…Strange..It Sure Is Strange..!!
Anonymous said,
May 8, 2006 @ 9:15 pm
well…it doesnt matter..wats written up there… in a country like india…where we had gr8 fighters like guru gobing singh ji, subhash chandra bose etc. we have always believed in one philosophy…”a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye”. they say “the suppressed is more guilty than the suppressor”. the britishers ruled us for 200 years.wat was once a golden bird is now a country full of corruption , poverty and illiteracy.have we ever wondered y it took us 200 years to drive those bastards out of our motherland?well i certainly believe it was the people like mahatma…who really crippled the nation…today we r paying for his deeds…we still have recuperated from wat he did….it was very easy for him to talk about non violence and go on endless fasts,when our sisters were getting raped and our brothers were dying and getting beaten up mercilessly at the hands of muslims or the aliens…..we lost 1 3rd of our country…we were crippled by wat the britishers did..well..i feel it was not the britishers who actually ruined us but some blood suckers like gandhi who actully sucked the blood out of our veins till the last drop…i respect nathu ram godse for wat he did…it was long overdue…..