# Gandhi fasts in Delhi for communal peace after Partition killings

Date: 1948

## The fact

On 13 January 1948 Gandhi began a fast in Delhi aimed at stopping communal killing and at conditions including restoration of mosques and safety of Muslims remaining in the city. He broke it on 18 January after public pledges. The 30 January assassination is a later Fact.

## Context

A fast can be a cohesion technology and a private spiritual act. It did not reverse Partition. Medium confidence on lives saved; high on the fast occurring.

[Mahatma Gandhi](/people/mahatma-gandhi) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official archival, ashram, or government pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti (https://gandhismriti.gov.in/; Gandhi Smriti / Government of India).

## Significance

Do not write that the fast cancelled Pakistan. Do write a dated peace-demand on his own body.

Do not write that the fast cancelled Pakistan. Do write a dated peace-demand on his own body.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Mahatma Gandhi: https://factrail.ai/people/mahatma-gandhi

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.nytimes.com/1948/01/31/archives/gandhi-is-killed-by-a-hindu-assassin-india-shaken-world-mourns-60.html
- https://gandhismriti.gov.in/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ga-delhi-fast-1948