Gandhi Smriti

Gandhi Smriti - darkometer rating : 4 - The estate in New Delhi where India 's national hero Mahatma Gandhi lived for the final period of his life – and the place where he was assassinated in 1948. It is now a shrine-cum-museum kind of site and one of the city's more major dark-tourism attractions. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: Mahatma Gandhi is often referred to in India as the “father of the nation”, or its “founder” … and indeed the country owes a lot of its gaining independence to Gandhi's decades-long activism. But this is not the place to give a full account of all this, of Gandhi's life, his teachings or political achievements. The topic has filled countless volumes and websites and is also amply illustrated at the Gandhi Smriti itself. So I won't repeat this here. Suffice it to say that this estate is where Gandhi stayed during the last 144 days of his life, from September 1947 to the day of his assassination on 30 January 1948 . Those were turbulent times, as India had just been released into independence by the British , whose colonial rule Gandhi had so famously rejected and fought against most of his life. Gandhi was greatly disillusioned with the break-up of India , the Partition , as it has become known as. This refers to the formation of a separate Pakistani state, which triggered much violence and a mass population shift between the countries. See also under Amritsar and Wagah . The assassin was a Hindu nationalist extremist who opposed Gandhi's approach of non-violence and thought Gandhi was “giving in” to political demands by Muslim Pakistan.