Relevance. Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: Death tolls are given by historians such as Will Durant, who, in The Reformation (1957), cites Juan Antonio Llorente, General Secretary of the Inquisition from 1789 to 1801, as estimating that 31,912 people were executed from 1480-1808.
Why Gandhi Was Assassinated? Who Killed Mahatma Gandhi? On Jan. 30, 1948, Mohandas Gandhi was shot dead by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. Godse believed that the Mahatma, or the great soul, was responsible for the 1947 partition of India and the creation of Pakistan. Godse and his friend Narayan Apte were hanged.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi better known as Mahatma Gandhi, is today referred to as the âFather of the Nationâ in India. Besides being a critical spearhead in the Indian Independence Movement, he is also a guiding light for many in aspects of life, spirituality and religion.is comrades in the Congress accepted independence on the basis of a partition of the country into India and Pakistan and Gandhi had to fall in line with them. India got her independence on the 15th August, 1947.