Minutes before his death, he had his will testified in which he said, "My ashes may be sunk in the holy Sindhu river, when she will flow again freeely under the aegis of the flag of a unified Hindustan. It hardly matters if it takes a couple of generations for realising my wish. Preserve the ashes till then." Who was this person?

Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, expressed Hindu nationalist ideology about a unified India. The quote reflects sentiments about the Sindhu (Indus) river, which flows through Pakistan, territory some Hindu nationalists hoped would reunify with India. Gokhale was a moderate leader, Batukeshwar Dutt was a revolutionary who did not express such territorial nationalism, and Tagore was a universalist opposed to narrow nationalism.