WI: Gandhi survives his assassination attempt?

As most of you are probably aware, IOTL Gandhi was shot and killed in 1948 by a Hindu nationalist. What if he had survived the attack (either by the assassin being stopped before he could fire or by being wounded nonfatally)? What would be the effects on India and the world if he had survived even a few more years?
 
He might have gotten the chance to appear on television!
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Might has some internal affect to India but he wouldn't live many years longer anyway. He was already old man and wasn't very health. Might be too that we see Gandhi bit differently as in OTL when he is not martyrised.
 

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At the very least, he almost certainly gets the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948. OTL, the committee had nominated him in 1947, they were about to nominate him again when he died (posthumous awards are not allowed), and they decided that there would be no winner in ‘48 because “no one was worthy.”
 
Ghandi was killed days before planning to depart for the Punjab in a bid to bring some peace to the region. At the same time he had just gone through two hunger strikes closely after one another and his health was in general decline. Most likely he dies in the Punjab, either from getting on the wrong side of either the Muslims, Sikhs or Hindus clashing in the region or as a result of the general deterioration of his health. Now the impact of Ghandi dying to someone other than a Hindu nationalist could have a lot of interesting consequences re: Hindu nationalism which was on the rise right up until Ghandi's murder made them anathema. I actually spent a while trying to game out the consequences of it, and things could have gone a lot worse than IOTL.

However, if he does make it through the Partition Crisis he will obviously have a large impact on how India develops early on. However, this again means that the Hindu Nationalists are on a better footing than IOTL. Further, without Ghandi's death to bring Nehru and Vallabhbhai together again, the Indian National Congress is going to be far more split internally. I don't think Ghandi could have brought them together to the same extent that his death did. This would have a number of interesting implications, particularly with regards to whether Nehru would have the same degree of power both within the party and over the nation as a whole. That in turn has a ton of implications for what role India takes post-independence on everything from Kashmir and Pakistan to American and Soviet relations.
 
Ghandi was killed days before planning to depart for the Punjab in a bid to bring some peace to the region. At the same time he had just gone through two hunger strikes closely after one another and his health was in general decline. Most likely he dies in the Punjab, either from getting on the wrong side of either the Muslims, Sikhs or Hindus clashing in the region or as a result of the general deterioration of his health. Now the impact of Ghandi dying to someone other than a Hindu nationalist could have a lot of interesting consequences re: Hindu nationalism which was on the rise right up until Ghandi's murder made them anathema. I actually spent a while trying to game out the consequences of it, and things could have gone a lot worse than IOTL.

However, if he does make it through the Partition Crisis he will obviously have a large impact on how India develops early on. However, this again means that the Hindu Nationalists are on a better footing than IOTL. Further, without Ghandi's death to bring Nehru and Vallabhbhai together again, the Indian National Congress is going to be far more split internally. I don't think Ghandi could have brought them together to the same extent that his death did. This would have a number of interesting implications, particularly with regards to whether Nehru would have the same degree of power both within the party and over the nation as a whole. That in turn has a ton of implications for what role India takes post-independence on everything from Kashmir and Pakistan to American and Soviet relations.

I do think that Gandhi might be able to make it, as noted in one of the links I put it. The one I think is interesting where it says the constitution. Gandhi could gave more influence on the constitution which would help alot.
 
I do think that Gandhi might be able to make it, as noted in one of the links I put it. The one I think is interesting where it says the constitution. Gandhi could gave more influence on the constitution which would help alot.
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/ambedkar/web/index.html
you might want to read appendix 1 and 2 of this (actually read the whole thing tbh, anything Ambedkar is essential imo) for a nice discussion between Mahatma Gandhi and Babasaheb Ambedkar on caste, might help to form ideas about their potential relationship during the drafting of the constitution (where Ambedkar had a very prominent role, to say the least.)
 
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