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 ==Gandhiji's Assasination== 
 The bit linking the entire Chitpavan community to Gandhi's assasiantion plot is a very sick case of POV pushing. Assuming that the entire community supported the plot because the majority of the plotters were Chitpavans is simply original reserach. That can smply be explained by the fact that in those days people made friends based on the caste of the person. The plotters, undoubtedly people motivated by religious and regional prejudices, were more likely to recruit like-minded people from their own caste and distrust people from other castes. This is similar to the formation of ""Italian mobs"" in the US. It does not mean that all Italians are born criminals; just that existing criminals found it easy to coax new migrants into crime by exploiting their needs and playing on their common ethnicity.   "