Osama bin Laden who became a global symbol of religious terror after September 2001 and Nathuram Godse, who killed Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, though imbued with messianic zeal of a high order were both creatures of the modern market, products of modern ideologies even if they were clothed in mediaevalism.
Godse killed Gandhi to stop him from handing over money promised at the time of Partition to Pakistan. His comrades in the
Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) and the Hindu Mahasabha had a pathological hatred of India’s communists. Thus they had the support of a powerful section of India’s business elite.