Later her own son Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a LTTE girl from Si Lanka, near Chennai in 1991. In our own times Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own bodyguard on 31 October 1984. Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by N Godse in 1948.
All of us know the ‘Et tu Brute?’ (You too Brutus!) exclamation of Julius Caesar. And his own friend Brutus was part of the conspiracy. Julius Caesar was assassinated in Rome around that time. He was killed in 73 BCE on the orders of his minister Vasudeva. Tamil poet Tiruvalluvar and Vishnusarman of Panchatantra also mentioned such assassinations.ĭevabhuti, the last of the Sunga emperors, who was a weak, dissipated and debauched monarch was assassinated in his bed in dark by a slave girl dressed as his queen. As far as we know it started in 73 BCE and went up to 1991.
Just to compare the less known assassination that happened in Tamil Nadu I am giving some known attacks. I am not giving a comprehensive list of assassinations that happened in Indian history. Pictures shown here are taken from various sources including google, Wikipedia, Facebook friends and newspapers.
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