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“ I have been known as a crank, faddist madman.

 Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For, wherever 

 I go; I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen .”

----- Gandhi’s honest opinionabout himself (May 9 / 1929)

The present author understands and accepts the fact that after some time of the death of a greatman as the Nation enters a new phase, the new generation of writers needs something fresh to

say on the subject and they are tempted to look for a way of attacking the accepted view by

starting a debunking trend. But these new critics of Gandhi are quite educated and well-experienced in the field of politics and Journalism. Most of them are first rated thinkers,

honest, well-respected and do not have any myth-making tendency. According to them,

Gandhi’s nonviolent movement was an utter failure with many violent consequences. Wesimply cannot ignore them.

On January 30, 1948, Gandhi was murdered by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu. Godse was not afanatic or ordinary murderer. Though he did not have much formal education but he had well

studied History, political science and religious scriptures. He was the editor of a daily and a

weekly news magazine. He was honest, upright and a man of self respect, and spent a good

amount of time in social work. He took active part in relief operations for Hindu-Sikh refugees

from Pakistan, many of whom had been raped or maimed or had lost relatives. He respectedGandhi and studied very closely whatever Gandhi had written and spoken. But in spite of this

he fired a pistol on Gandhi which killed him on the spot. What concerns more is that, theGovernment of India had suppressed information about Godse. His court statements, letters etc.

were all banned from the public until recently.

Though media often depicts Godse as a Hindu extremist but this view is very debatable. Many

 prominent internationally famed journalists do not accept this mainstream view. Judging from

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the writings of Gandhi’s killer at least one thing becomes very clear – He was no fanatic. His

court statements are very well read out and indicate a calm and collected mental disposition.

He never even once speaks ill about Gandhi as a person, but only attacks Gandhi’s policieswhich caused ruin and untold misery to Hindus. Moreover, Godse never harmed anyone in his

life; rather he was well known for his unselfish kindness and devoted social work. It would be

a grave mistake to call him a Hindu fanatic.

The present author neither supports Nathuram Godse's ideology nor does he disparage

Gandhism. The only intention of writing this article is to expose the truth. Today after morethan six decades of his death it is time to reevaluate Gandhi under the new light of criticism

and to re-examine – was Godse an extremist or nationalist?

First of all, what was Gandhi’s thinking behind his philosophy of nonviolence? Undoubtedlyhe was a religious man in search of God. Though he was a Hindu and Hinduism in general

 preaches nonviolence, Gandhi was not well versed in Hindu scriptures. He never read the

ancient Vedas because of his lack of reading interest. He was a below average student and had

hardly shown any interest in reading books beyond study books. Though he had read the sacredHindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita, but it is doubtful how much he understood. He also did not

study Indian history well. But in spite of all these drawbacks, which he was well aware of, hestructured his philosophy of nonviolence according to the Hindu philosophy. This is where he

made the serious mistake. The Hindus mistook him as a Hindu saint and were misguided by his

distorted thinking. It made Gandhi a living God at the cost of many innocent lives and National

integrity.

This was the crankiness of Gandhi. He preached nonviolence but he did not know where to

stop. On September 3, 1939, when Great Britain declared war on Germany, Gandhi met LordLinlithgow (the Viceroy of India) and started weeping like a child insisting that Britain must

give up arms and oppose Hitler with spiritual force. Gandhi thought that the viceroy would

accept his proposal and communicate to British government. He was so much absorbed in his judgment of nonviolence that he thought that a tyrant like Hitler could be stopped by

nonviolence.

 Not only this, Gandhi wrote an open letter to the British government, urging them to surrender 

to the Nazis. Later, when the extent of the holocaust was known, he criticized Jews who had

tried to escape or fight for their lives. Gandhi said,

“ Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. The Jews should have

offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea

 from cliffs. It would have aroused the world and the people of Germany”.

Gandhi even told the Jews to “ pray for Hitler ”. It means; the Jews should have saluted Hitler 

and walked cheerfully into the gas chambers because that's what Gandhi’s nonviolencedictates. Gandhi was so eager to sell his nonviolence that he wrote a letter to Hitler during July

1939 (which the government of India did not permit to go) addressing him “ My friend ”. Then

during December 1940, Gandhi wrote another letter to his friend Hitler again addressing him

" My friend " and closing his letter with " your sincere friend ". He ended the letter with a brief 

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statement "That I address you as a friend is no formality. I own no foes .” In this love letter 

Gandhi mentioned, “We have no doubt about your bravery or devotion to your fatherland,

nor do we believe that you are the monster described by your opponents”.

Gandhi knew nothing about Jews history and the plight of the Jews. He said, “The cry for the

national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me.” And about the Israeli Jews,Gandhi said,

“They can settle in Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs. They should seek to convert the

 Arab heart. The same God rules the Arab heart who rules the Jewish heart. They can offer 

 Satyagraha [the philosophy and practice of nonviolent resistance] in front of the Arabs and 

offer themselves to be shot or thrown into the Dead Sea without raising a little finger against 

them”

This is the height of Gandhi’s confidence in his doctrine of nonviolence, which according to

him, was based on the teaching of Hinduism. But let it be on record, nowhere in Hinduism or 

in Hindu scriptures, these utterly disgusting concepts are advocated. During his student life,Gandhi was a below average learner and passed his matriculation with a third class. He had a

very little knowledge about the teachings of Hinduism. So the cult of his nonviolence was hisown brainchild and what he thought to be the pillars of Hinduism were his misinterpretation,

misunderstanding, misconception and malevolence. He projected himself a Hindu saint but his

unwise actions and absurd preaching brought deep shame to Hinduism.

In sum; Gandhi’s doctrine of nonviolence was completely different from the Bhagavad Gita’s

doctrine of peacefulness, sublimity, forgiveness etc. In Hinduism, strict nonviolence only

applies to ordinary peaceful life and between two good people, and not to the emergenciescreated by evil causes. In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, it is mentioned,

“ Ahimsa [nonviolence] is the highest Dharma [justice].

 It is the highest purification.

 It is also the highest truth From which all Dharma proceeds” (XVIII: 1125.25).

But in spite of this preaching of nonviolence, the main characters of Mahabharata were skilled

warriors and they fought fiercely and destroyed evil in the battlefield. The battle of 

Mahabharata that took place in ‘Kurukshetra’ was a violent clash which caused death of a largenumber of people. But still Mahabharata is all about Dharma (Justice) and the action. It is

about the way a man should see life, fight the wickedness and love humanity and live with

honor and self respect.

The Vedas have advocated the Kashatriya (the warrior sect of Hinduism) code of honor based

on active fighting in an open combat zone. Similarly the philosophy of nonviolence asmentioned in Bhagavad Gita is completely different from that of Gandhi. Few short quotes are

as follows,

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“ In this world there are two kinds of created beings. One is called the divine and the other demoniac.” (16:6)

“Those who are demoniac do not know what is to be done and what is not to be done. Neither 

cleanliness nor proper behavior nor truth is found in them” (16:7)

“The demoniacs, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in

unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world .” (16:9)

“ Know what your duty is and do it without hesitation. For a warrior, there is nothing better 

than a battle that duty enjoins” (2.31)

“Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of ‘Bharata’ 

 [The Hindu Nation], and a predominant rise of irreligion—at that time I descend Myself. To

deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of 

religion, I Myself appear, millennium after millennium” (4:7, 8)

These few quotes from Bhagavad Gita are enough to show that Gandhi’s understanding of 

nonviolence was totally different from the philosophy of nonviolence of Hinduism. The lasttwo quotes from Bhagavad Gita are particularly important. Lord Krishna promised to reborn

and destroy the evil to reestablish dharma. Gandhi’s nonviolence is cowardice and there is no

heroism in it. In Hindu philosophy, the nonviolence is the quality of a courageous man and

there is absolutely no place of spinelessness in it. A warrior is duty-bound to fight the evil.Gandhi may not have an enemy, but according to Hinduism all the evils are enemies of 

humankind that cannot be ignored. The core message of Bhagavad Gita is to wage a righteous

war against the enemies of the truth and motherland. Therefore, Gandhi’s nonviolence was

Gandhi’s fantasy. Hinduism has nothing to do with it. Hinduism does not support Gandhi’s

‘my friend’ attitude to Hitler and his irrational advice to the Jews to ‘pray for Hitler’ and die

cheerfully.

Bhagavad Gita teaches men to live with honor and if necessary die for it. Sadly, this

simple Hindu wisdom never entered in the fat head of the naked Hindu saint Gandhi. Henceinstead of following the message of Bhagavad Gita, Gandhi wanted Indians to follow the

cowardly whim of his nonviolence. Because of his little understanding, he suffered from lack 

of realism. That’s why he could not see Hitler's fanaticism, cruelty, coldness of heart and other 

reprehensible traits; rather he advised the Jews to offer themselves cheerfully to the butcher’sknife. It was not greatness of Gandhi; rather it was his great stupidity.

Gandhi loved experiment. Throughout his life he had experimented with nonviolence and truth.He was principled and pure at heart, hardworking, truthful, kindhearted, a strict vegetarian and

down to earth. He rejected the title of Mahatma (great soul). He said, ’I myself do not feel likea saint in any shape or form’. But the ordinary village people of India spontaneously began tosee Gandhi as a Mahatma and as the title became universally accepted, he had to put up with it.

But neither Gandhi ever used it nor encouraged his friends to use it.

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He renounced all worldly possession, devoting his life to work for the dignity and uplift of the

downtrodden. After his death, someone took a photograph of all his worldly possessions. It was

a tiny heap consisting of his glasses, a pair of sandals, a homespun loin cloth (he had only onegarment), a dozen of books and a watch. That was all. By reducing his own needs and

 possessions to an absolute minimum, Gandhi had demonstrated that the commonly assumed

connection between wealth and merit is false. Once, when asked by a foreign visitor what hismessage was, he replied ‘ My life is my message’. This is why he was so challenging a person

to encounter.

But in spite of many noble and rare qualities in his character; Gandhi’s life and teachings were

full of contradictions and it is doubtful how much he succeeded in his experiment. As example,

he condemned untouchability but preached the validity of caste system. He did not believe in

the exclusive divinity of the Vedas but called himself a Hindu and at the same time did not believe in Hinduism as an exclusive religion. He did believe that Mahabharata was a work of 

fiction that actually never took place but he read Bhagavad Gita religiously, not understanding

the fact that Bhagavad Gita is a part of Mahabharata. He found much spirituality in Koran but

he projected himself to be the spiritual leader of India as a Hindu saint. And lastly; accordingto him, any non-Hindu can practice Hinduism but he cannot be accepted in the Hindu fold.

All the above examples prove that Gandhi’s thinking was bizarre. He cherished a fancy belief 

that all the conflicts in the world could be solved in a nonviolent manner. It is like a ‘sure-cure’

medicine of a quack doctor who can treat all types of diseases with a single miracle medicine.

That’s why he failed miserably and ultimately had to pay by his life. There are many exampleswhen Gandhi brought untold misery to others by simply remaining obstinate to the unrealistic

ideas of his doctrine of nonviolence. For this if necessary he did not mind contradicting

himself. He failed again and again but like an addicted gambler neither he listened to anyonenor ever ready to give up his advocacy of nonviolence.

It’s not that a gambler always loses. Gandhi’s strategy of nonviolence worked wonder at SouthAfrica, where his Satyagraha and the ‘Truth-force’ had all the remedies of all the evils that the

White people had heaped on the Indians (both Hindus and non-Hindus). Gandhi had achieved

incredible success in all fields through nonviolence against the British exploitation in SouthAfrica.

Gandhi joined active politics after returning back to India. As time passed his influence in the

Congress first increased and then became supreme. In his little wisdom, Gandhi imagined thatthe problems that persisted in South Africa were no different from the ones that rocked India.

But he was wrong in his judgment. In South Africa, both Hindus and Muslims fought together 

against British oppression. India suffered not only from British tyranny but at the same timethere was worst type of communalism. There were tremendous tensions between the (religious)

communities, mainly between Muslims and non-Muslims, mostly Hindus. However, British

were primarily responsible for creating these interfaith tensions because of their notorious‘divide and rule’ policy.

This is where Gandhi made the biggest mistake of his life. He thought that like in South Africa,

he would be accepted as leader by both Hindus and Muslims of India. Gandhi declared that

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Hindu-Muslim unity was possible “because it is so natural, so necessary for both and because I believe in Human nature.”

This shows Gandhi’s absolute ignorance of the Islamic faith. Gandhi claimed that he had read

the Koran and found much spirituality in it. He did not know that Islam had divided the

mankind into two groups. The Muslims belong to the party of Allah and are assured victoryagainst the infidels, the party of Satan. Koran has led it down unequivocally that all Gods are

false except Allah and Islam is the religion of dominance. A country is Darul Harb until it is

dominated and ruled by the Muslims. With this attitude a Muslim cannot live peacefully withthe non-Muslims anywhere in the world. This simple fact Gandhi could not understand because

of his little intelligence. In the thick mind of Gandhi it never occurred that according to Koran,

India is an infidel land and except few honorable one, most Muslims want total destruction of 

India. A Muslim born in India thinks of himself as a part of the international Muslim brotherhood instead of believing to be an Indian national. Muslims deliberately want to

forget the fact that 99% of them have the same blood and cultural traditions as do the

Hindus. They prefer to think of themselves as descendants of foreign invaders.

Therefore Gandhi started with his ‘support the Muslims and blame the Hindus’ policy to

advance his cult of nonviolence. In fact Gandhi’s pro-Muslim policy began as soon as helanded in India. At any cost, this dim-witted leader of India was eager to impress the Muslims

and to become their undisputed leader. As the present author said before, Gandhi was very

fond of experiment; now Gandhi started a new experiment on how to impress the Muslims. He

did not mind that all his experiments were at the expense of the Hindus. With the prosperity of his political career he turned more and more anti-Hindu. He began giving several legally

questionable and illogical promises to the Muslims as if he was handing over to them a blank 

cheque facility. By this way, Gandhi actually pushed the Muslims who had entered themainstream society back to the Islamic fanatic middle ages.

There are hundreds of examples, when Gandhi’s pro-Muslim policy and experiment with truthwas solely at the cost of non-Muslim Indians. Gandhi was guilty of blunder after blunder,

failure after failure, disaster after disaster, but he neither admitted his mistake nor ever learnt a

lesson from it.

Gandhi showed his perverse attitude on the question of the national language of India.

Obviously Hindi has the most prior claim to be accepted as the premier language. But as he

found that Muslims did not like it, he insisted that Hindustani (a cross-breed colloquiallanguage between Hindi and Urdu without grammar and vocabulary) alone should be the

national language of India.

Gandhi intentionally denied the fact that Muslim rulers converted countless number of Hindus

 by force. One day a fanatical Muslim leader met Gandhi. To please him Gandhi said,

“ I know the secret of spread of Islam. I am aware that Islam spread not due to sword but by

the teachings of Fakirs and Maulavis. The sword had been used to merely protect the

 Muslim culture”.

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The fact is that about 80 million Hindus had been killed in India by Muslim invasions. The

famous historian Will Durant summed it up like this, “The Islamic conquest of India is

 probably the bloodiest story in history”. Sometimes entire cities were burnt down and the populations massacred. Hundreds of thousands killed in every campaign and those who were

alive deported as slaves. Every new invader made (often literally) his hills of Hindus’ skulls.

Some Muslims rulers made it a rule to kill one hundred thousand captives in a single day. Theconquest of Afghanistan in the year 1000 was followed by the annihilation of the Hindu

 population; the region is still called the Hindu Kush, i.e. Hindu slaughter. The pre-Islamic

name of Hindu Kush was 'Paariyaatra Parvat'.

Either Gandhi knew nothing about Indian history or he denied purposely. About the Hindu

hater king Aurangazeb, Gandhi said,

“Since Aurangazeb has lived here for so many years, allegations of enmity and distance

leveled at him should cease and he should be considered one of us. For this, if from time totime some sacrifice has to be made to resolve the issue, it should be done.  And in this way

 Aurangazeb and Shivaji should together found a new Hindu Nation .”

Congress showed respect to Gandhi by adopting the Tiranga (Tricolor) with Charkha as itsflag. This flag used to be unfurled on every major event of the Congress. The Gandhibadis

used to decorate their homes with this flag. The university students used to hoist this flag in

the university building to demonstrate their nationalist sentiments. But once a fundamentalist

Muslim found the flag unbearable and took objection to it. Hearing this, Gandhi immediatelyordered to take down the flag. He even did not bother to ask other Congress people. This is

how he trampled the faith of hundreds of Congress people only to please one Muslim man.

Gandhi was never interested in the sentiments or the feelings of the Hindus. The famous

‘Vanda Mataram’ song had proved an inspiration during those days. Bengali community

almost worshipped the song. But when Jinnah, the president of Muslim League and a handfulof his follower Muslims objected, disregarding the nationalist sentiment of the song, Gandhi

 put a ban on it and forced the whole nation to abandon it. In 1940, Congress announced a

decision that the words ‘Vanda Mataram’ should not be used by Congress members in any public speeches and announcements. These two words, which had potential to ignite a

spontaneous wave of patriotism among the Bengalies could have prevented the splitting of 

Bengal. Gandhi also put a ban on ShivBanvani. ShivBanvani is a small inspiring poem by poet

Bhushan. The poet had written that if Shivaji had not been born, entire India would have beenconverted to Islam. The poet had used exact words to correctly depict the fierce fanaticism and

intolerance preached within Islam. Gandhi imposed a ban on this poem to keep the sentiments

of his ‘Muslim brothers’.

To please the Muslims, Gandhi supported the mutiny against the Hindu king of Kashmir. The

followers of Gandhi even insulted the Hindu kings in the areas of Jaipur, Bhavnagar andRajkot. But his attitude towards Muslim kings was exactly opposite. Gandhi asked the Hindu

king of Kashmir to retire and go to Kashi after handing over his kingdom to Shaikh Abdullah

 because Kashmir had a Muslim majority. But according to the same logic, Gandhi never asked

the ‘Nizam of Hyderabad’ to retire and go to Mecca after handing over his kingdom to a Hindu

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king because Hyderabadis were Hindus in majority. In fact Gandhi announced, “ After Britishleave India, the Nizam of Hyderabad would be the ‘Badshah of Bharat’ [supreme ruler of 

 India]”.

When Hindu population of Bhopal was suffering under the tyrannical rule of the Muslim ruler,

Hindu girls were abducted and raped, Hindu culture was opposed and rapid Islamisation wastaking place; Gandhi once visited Bhopal and like an innocent child declared, “The people of 

 Bhopal are happy under the rule of Nawab. He leads a simple life and a ‘Ramraja’ [arighteous king].”

Gandhi practiced duplicity to appraise the Muslims during Khilafat movement. Khilafat

movement was an attempt by the Indian Muslim community to unite together in support of the

Turkish Empire ruled by the Khalifa. The Muslims considered the Khalifa as the custodian of Islam. Under the leadership of prominent Muslim leaders, the Khilafat movement was

launched in most parts of North India. Surprisingly, Gandhi while advocating non-violence to

Hindus; permitted violent recourse to Muslims during the Khilafat movement. Gandhi

suggested the Muslims,

“ If the peaceful non-cooperation movement does not succeed in getting justice, then, they have

the right to follow the path shown in the Holy Books of Islam and I whole-heartedly support 

this path.”

Gandhi should have opposed this path, which was contrary to his principle of nonviolence, buthe supported it whole-heartedly. When the Indian Muslims invited the Amir of Afghanistan to

attack India and to convert this Darul Harb into Darul Islam, Gandhi supported this move also.

Gandhi justified the atrocities committed by Muslims on Hindus. At Malabar, Moplas

tormented Hindu Dharma, Hindu dignity, Hindu lives and Hindus' wealth for a long time.

Hundreds of Hindus were forcibly converted into Islam and Hindu women were raped. Gandhidid not say a word against these atrocities. On the contrary he justified their atrocities and

 brushed the whole thing away by commenting that, “ Brave God-fearing Moplas who were

 fighting for what they considered as religion, and in a manner, which they considered as

religious”.

Gandhi also blatantly denied that innumerable cases of conversion into Islam had taken place.

He wrote, “The Moplas were right in presenting the Koran or sword to the Hindus. And if 

the Hindus became Mussalmans [Muslims] to save themselves from death, it was a

voluntary change of faith and not forcible conversion.”

In this riot more than 600 Hindus were killed and more than 2500 Hindus were converted

to Islam forcibly. Number of Hindu women raped was unknown. But Gandhi wrote in the

news letter 'Young India' that only one incidence of forcibly conversion had taken place. TheMalabar Mopla atrocity was such a gruesome incident that even Muslim friends of Gandhi

 pointed out this wrong statement, yet Gandhi did not correct the false report. This was the

height of his pro-Muslim policy.

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