The Murderer, the Monarch and the Fakir: A New Investigation of Mahatma Gandhi’s Assassination,

Abstract

the non-Aryan rarely ate, slept, or lived together and if they ever did so, it was masked, clothed, disguised, or on the terms set by the dvija (114). It thus historically places the repudiation of Hindu religion as the Indian civilization formulated three decades ago in Why I am Not a Hindu (1996) by Kancha Ilaiah. The text takes the perpetrators of violence away from the state as pointed out in Ziya Us Salam’s Lynch Files: The Forgotten Saga of Victims of Hate Crime (2019) and to the innocuousness of ordinary citizens and the sacrileges of their violent past, which have constituted the ‘banality of evil’ over centuries in the name of dharma. While addressing her son, Babu, she indirectly informs the future generations of their inheritance. Done with skilful research and sincerity, My Son’s Inheritance deserves a place on the bookshelf for years to come.