Whose Heroes and Whose Villains? ‘Rewriting’ the History of the Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi

The terrain of this paper, the writing and rewriting of history, is much traversed and contested. When we speak of the contested imaginings of the nation, history writing generally comes to mind. This is where the battle for the minds of the people is fought. The spread of communal ideology is predicated on a distorted representation of history.