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Why I Killed Gandhi?

by Nathuram Godse

Narrated by Raja Sevak

3.80 ABR Score (7.5K ratings)
★ 3.98 Goodreads (7.5K) ★ 4 Audible (3)
6h 31m Released 2024 Biography & Memoir

About This Audiobook

Few historical documents provoke as much debate as Nathuram Godse's account of why he assassinated Mahatma Gandhi on January 30, 1948. Compiled from Godse's own court statement and supplementary material by his brother, the book presents the assassin's perspective on partition-era politics, his grievances against Gandhi's influence on the Congress party, and the ideological convictions that drove him to one of the most consequential acts of political violence in modern history. Rather than a celebration of violence, the text functions as a primary source document, forcing readers to confront the internal logic of a man who believed he was acting in India's national interest.

Raja Sevak brings a measured, deliberate delivery to this charged material, resisting sensationalism in favor of clarity. His restrained tone suits the courtroom-testimony origins of much of the text, lending it the weight of a legal record rather than polemic. At six and a half hours, the runtime is tight enough to sustain focus across a genuinely unsettling listen.