Nathuram Vinayak Godse was born in 1910 in a Brahmin family in
Pune District,
Maharashtra. Godse was a sober, patriotic, austerely moralistic and scholarly, thirty-seven-year-old bachelor, hardly seemed a candidate for the role of an assassin. He was editor of a Maharashtra newspaper Agrani (Foremost), later renamed Hindu Rashtra. From time to time he wrote scathing editorials denouncing Gandhi and the Congress party. Godse held Gandhi responsible for the partition of India. He had no personal hatred of Gandhi. Godse even stated during his trial, 'Before I fired the shots I actually wished him well and bowed to him in reverence'. Godse was hanged on November 15, 1949
