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Indian Hindus
- Mahatma GandhiAt 5:17 p.m. on the 30th of January 1948, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was walking through the garden of Birla House in Delhi, his grandnieces beside him, on…
- Harilal GandhiHarilal Mohandas Gandhi was born on the 23rd of August 1888. His father left for England shortly after his birth to pursue higher studies.
- Atal Bihari VajpayeeAtal Bihari Vajpayee joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1939, at the age of 12, as a volunteer in Gwalior. Decades later, that same boy would be sworn…
- Indira GandhiOn the 31st of October 1984, Indira Gandhi walked toward a wicket gate in the garden at 1 Safdarjung Road in New Delhi. Two of her own Sikh bodyguards stood…
- Gopal GodseGopal Vinayak Godse worked at a transportation company in the years leading up to 1948. Before that employment, he served in the British Army during the…
- Devdas GandhiDevdas Mohandas Gandhi was born on the 22nd of May 1900 in the Colony of Natal, far from the subcontinent his father would one day help liberate.
- Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore was eight years old when he wrote his first poetry. At sixteen, he released substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhanusimha, meaning Sun…
- Vallabhbhai PatelVallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was born on the 31st of October 1875 in Nadiad, Gujarat, and he died on the 15th of December 1950 in Bombay.
- Nathuram GodseNathuram Godse fired three bullets into Mahatma Gandhi's chest at exactly 05:05 pm on the 30th of January 1948. The setting was a raised lawn behind Birla…
- Ravi ShankarRavi Shankar was "horrified." At the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, he watched Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar on stage.