Their main opposition against Gandhi for one, was his movement’s changing of the social order of India that is centralizing the periphery (Nandy, “Final Encounter,” 71). This is threatening intellectuals and those with higher status in society as their dominant position Gandhi’s support for the larger presence of women in society, touched on Brahman’s fear of female contamination and Kshatriya, angered by this tampering of the sexual …show more content…
Looking at his backstory explains what prompted him to kill the Mahatma. During his trial for his murder of Gandhi, he demonstrated his hyper masculinity as he criticized Gandhi for the “emasculation of the Hindu community and make it incapable of resisting oppression” (Godse,“May It Please Your Honor, 42). He also discusses the futility of Gandhi’s fasts and how he failed as Father of the Nation but rather proven to be the “Father of Pakistan” (Nandy, 83). As a hyper-rational individual Godse also disapproved of Gandhi’s de intellectualization of Indian politics. Gandhi did so to prevent middle class intellectuals dominance. Essentially, he was epitomized the opposite of Gandhi’s teachings of nonviolence, critique of modernity and hyper rationality and the softening of politics. It is no surprise that Gandhi was killed by someone like him. Gandhi was no stranger to opposition and took no means of security for himself and continued to fight for what he believed in died a proper death fitting for a