There is a full chapter titled "The Beretta Gun that Killed Gandhi" in the book describing how the weapon was chosen.Īfter a failed assassination attempt on January 20, 1948, it was decided that Gandhi had to be killed before February 2 as he was going out of Delhi after that day. It was arranged by the Gwalior doctor Dattatreya Parchure, who is believed to have founded the Hindu Rashtra Sena (HRS). 719791, Beretta CAL 9, manufactured in 1934. On January 30, 1948, Nathuram Godse killed Mahatma Gandhi with the Italian-made automatic pistol No. In our opinion, this discovery has enormous significance for the contemporary understanding of a defining moment in India's history," they write in the book, published by HarperCollins India. "The new evidence we have presented in this book traces the origins of the conspiracy to a time as early as a week before Independence Day in 1947. Most importantly, it was not conceived just a few weeks before 30 January 1948," the authors say. "… The conspiracy to murder Mahatma Gandhi was not the handiwork of a lone wolf or a few fanatic members of the Hindu Mahasabha.
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