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When the word non-violence is spoken, people, at least in India quickly remember and recollect Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ((1868-1948) of India (Known as Father of Indian Nation and also has been given title Mahatma meaning great soul) who lived on the earth very recently during last century. He was shot dead by Nathuram Vinayak Godse of Hindu Maha Sabha (A nationalist Organization) at Delhi in cold blood on 30 January 1948 subsequent to partition of Indian sub continent by the British government in 1947. Violence scored over non violence at that instant. It is widely believed by a very large section of Indian society that the Indian sub continent was partitioned as a result of non violence policy and appeasement of Muslims of MK Gandhi. The killing of MK Gandhi was the result of such feelings and rise of passions immediately after partition and the communal holocaust in which countless people perished.

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