Two Men One Gun- The Assassination of General Ashe

Vanchinathan’s assassination of General Ashe in Maniyachi sent shock waves across British India.

Karthick Nambi
World history in chunks
4 min readJul 15, 2021

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Photo by Max Kleinen on Unsplash

It was a railway station in the south of India. Fresh coffee and Samosa (an Indian snack) filled the air, and gunfire disrupted the morning bustling. The crowd scattered in fear as a young man descended from the rail…

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