Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism - Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the ''Third Reich''

The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism examines four organisations in Nazi Germany which used different kinds of knowledge of India to conduct pro-German and as the Second World War approached, anti-British propaganda among Indians.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: India Institute of the Deutsche Akademie


• 2: Special Department India (Sonderreferat Indien) of the German Foreign Ministry


• 3: 'Political Knowledge' of India in Berlin


• 4: 'India Experts' and the Indian Legion


• Conclusion

About the author

Dr Baijayanti Roy studied modern Indian and modern European history at the University of Calcutta in India. She received her PhD from the Goethe University, Frankfurt. Her dissertation has been published as a monograph, titled The making of a Gentleman Nazi: Albert Speer`s Politics of History in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is currently affiliated to the History Department of the Goethe University. She has published widely and spoken on different subjects including Nazi Germany, Hindu nationalism, the history of German Indology as well as aspects of the historical relationship between Germany and India.

Summary

The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism examines four organisations in Nazi Germany which used different kinds of knowledge of India to conduct pro-German and as the Second World War approached, anti-British propaganda among Indians.

Product details

• Authors: Baijayanti Roy, Baijayanti (Goethe University Roy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2024
• EAN: 9780192887542
• ISBN: 978-0-19-288754-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history