Gun used to kill gandhi3/11/2024 This narrative conveys both the triumph of Congress over the adversities of Partition and the triumph of ‘secularism’ over ‘communalism’. Footnote 2 Indian nationalist historiography placed a considerable amount of emphasis on the date of Gandhi's death as the turning point in ‘communal’ relations after Partition. The mourners on the river banks at Allahabad were estimated as ‘numbering more than a million’. By any standards, the public reaction was overwhelming and there was widespread participation in these rituals by immense numbers of people. A public funeral in New Delhi was followed by a fortnight-long official mourning period and then the immersion of his ashes in Allahabad. Footnote 1 Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January, 1948 and his death was followed by epic public outpourings of grief. Despite ever-increasing attention to performance as a mode of politics and the way that performance has shaped political possibilities in the postcolonial era, Gandhi's death and assassination, and associated mourning rituals, have been curiously neglected as sites of historical research.
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