"Although hardly half a dozen Maharashtrian Brahmans were involved in Godse’s crime, a very large number of them had to pay for it. The murder of the Father of the Nation provided non-Brahmans with an opportunity to vent their wrath upon the Brahmans, who, though a mere four per cent of the population, had come to dominate every sphere of life in Maharashtra. No sooner the news of the Mahatma’s murder was flashed than they protested that the murderer, Godse, should have been described as a ‘Maharashtrian’ [which in those days meant a Brahman only] and not a ‘Maratha’, a word exclusively used for the numerically largest section of the non-Brahman community, which claims a Kshatriya origin and into which Shivaji had been born."
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