Anyone familiar with that period of history can decipher that all these allegations of RSS and other Hindutva Outfits against Mahatma Gandhi are malicious and factually incorrect also. In fact, the idea of communal amity which Gandhi upheld all his life was a complete anathema to the exclusivist, Hindu supremacist worldview of the members of the RSS and Hindu Mahasabha. And, while the nation was a racial/religious construct in the imagination of the Hindutva forces, for Gandhi and the rest of the nationalists, it was a territorial construct or a bounded territory comprising different communities, collectivities living there. ******************************************************************************************************************************* On closer scrutiny, one discovers that during the last 14 years of his life – which stretched from 1934 to 1948 – there were more than five unsuccessful attempts on Gandhi’s life, which makes it clear that the conspiracy to eliminate him was conceived much earlier than the ‘successful accomplishment’ thereof. The grounds advanced for such a heinous crime could be seen as clever rationalisation to hoodwink the gullible.