The Nazi Study Of India And Indian Anticolonialism Knowledge Providers And Propagandists In The Third Reich Baijayanti Roy by Baijayanti Roy 9780192887542, 0192887548 instant download after payment.

This monograph is the first detailed and critical study of the intellectual and political connections between German scholars specializing on India, non-academic ‘India experts’, Indian anti-colonialist intellectuals, and various organs of the Nazi state. It explores the ways in which different kinds of knowledge pertaining to India’s history and contemporary politics were used by this diverse group of men to fulfil certain political goals of Nazi Germany. The book presents four organizations as case studies to demonstrate the ways in which discourses on India were employed to pursue Nazi Germany’s primary objective, which was to engage in pro-German and, as the war approached, anti-British propaganda in India. The four organizations under review, presented as four chapters, are the India Institute of the Deutsche Akademie; the Special Department India of the German Foreign Ministry; the Seminar for Oriental languages and its successor organizations affiliated to the University of Berlin; and the Indian Legion of the German Armed Forces or Wehrmacht. The chapters illuminate the complex entanglements between individuals, specialized academic and non-academic knowledge, demands of Germany’s cultural politics, and Indian anti-colonialist aspirations. This study often desists from using the term Indology in the context of the four organizations, preferring the more generic ‘knowledge of India’ instead. This is because Indology is generally associated with the academic study of India’s ancient past, while the Nazi authorities concerned found insights into contemporary India to be more ‘usable’.