The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism : Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the 'Third Reich'.
Roy, Baijayanti.
The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism : Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the 'Third Reich'. - 1st ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2025. ©2025. - 1 online resource (239 pages)
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Cover -- The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism : Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the 'Third Reich' -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Strand of Research -- Sheldon Pollock and the Politics of Indology's Past -- Post-Pollock Interventions -- The Scope and Theoretical Underpinnings of This Book -- The Four Case Studies as Chapters -- Notes -- 1: India Institute of the Deutsche Akademie -- Background: Foundation of the DA -- Indian Anti-Colonialism, German Nationalism, and Hindu Revivalism: 1928-1933 -- Nazi Politics and the Institute: 1933-1937 -- The India Institute and the Nazi Network in India -- Aryanism and Hindu Revivalism: Jakob Wilhelm Hauer and Walther Wüst -- India Institute and the Muslims -- Aryanism and 'Race Science' -- Walther Wüst and Nazification -- 'Pandit' Bhatta: From Scholarship Holder to Nazi Publicist -- Return of Indian Anti-Colonialism: 1939-1945 -- Cultural Political Reports -- The End and Resurrection of the Institute -- Notes -- 2: Special Department India ( Sonderreferat Indien) of the German Foreign Ministry -- Background: Indian Anti-Colonialism and Nazi Politics in Berlin -- The SRI: Aims and Objectives -- Enter Ludwig Alsdorf -- Indien -- Fortnightly Reports on India -- Franz Joseph Furtwängler -- Jogendra Kumar Banerji -- Abdul Rauf Malik -- Book Series on India -- Portrayals of India -- End and New Beginnings -- Notes -- 3: 'Political Knowledge' of India in Berlin -- Background: From Eudaimonia to Auslandswissenschaft -- Study of India at the Seminar for Oriental Languages until 1933 -- The Seminar for Oriental Studies: 1933-1936 -- The Ausland Hochschule and Nazi Politics: 1937-1939 -- Study of India at the AF ( Auslandswissenschaftliches Institut) and the DAWI ( Deutsche Auslandswissenschaftliches Institut): 1940-1944. Separate Section on India: Ludwig Alsdorf -- AF in 1944-1945 -- DAWI: Political Research of Foreign Countries -- End of the AF and the DAWI -- Notes -- 4: 'India Experts' and the Indian Legion -- Background: An Indian Legion in Germany -- Indian Legion: Political Context -- Interpreters and Cultural Mediators -- Linguistic Devices as Propaganda Tools: Ernst Bannerth and Otto Spies -- Bhaiband : Axis Propaganda, Anti-Colonialism, and 'Expert Knowledge' of India -- 'Long live Hitler! Long live Netaji': Legitimizing German Authority -- Führer Cult and Anti-Bolshevism -- (Fake) News of War -- Specialized Knowledge of India and Orientalist Stereotypes -- The Guru, the Prophet, and the Gods -- Mother India and her Children -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Continuity and Discontinuity -- Self-Mobilization and Knowledge Discourses -- Rewards -- Navigating Knowledge and Power -- Interventions of the SS -- Coping with the Nazi Past -- Three Questions -- Utility Issues -- Impact -- The Way Ahead -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary Source Archives -- Secondary Sources -- Index.
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.
9780192887559
Germany-Foreign relations-1933-1945.
Fernzugriff
The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism : Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the 'Third Reich'. - 1st ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2025. ©2025. - 1 online resource (239 pages)
E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
Cover -- The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism : Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the 'Third Reich' -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Strand of Research -- Sheldon Pollock and the Politics of Indology's Past -- Post-Pollock Interventions -- The Scope and Theoretical Underpinnings of This Book -- The Four Case Studies as Chapters -- Notes -- 1: India Institute of the Deutsche Akademie -- Background: Foundation of the DA -- Indian Anti-Colonialism, German Nationalism, and Hindu Revivalism: 1928-1933 -- Nazi Politics and the Institute: 1933-1937 -- The India Institute and the Nazi Network in India -- Aryanism and Hindu Revivalism: Jakob Wilhelm Hauer and Walther Wüst -- India Institute and the Muslims -- Aryanism and 'Race Science' -- Walther Wüst and Nazification -- 'Pandit' Bhatta: From Scholarship Holder to Nazi Publicist -- Return of Indian Anti-Colonialism: 1939-1945 -- Cultural Political Reports -- The End and Resurrection of the Institute -- Notes -- 2: Special Department India ( Sonderreferat Indien) of the German Foreign Ministry -- Background: Indian Anti-Colonialism and Nazi Politics in Berlin -- The SRI: Aims and Objectives -- Enter Ludwig Alsdorf -- Indien -- Fortnightly Reports on India -- Franz Joseph Furtwängler -- Jogendra Kumar Banerji -- Abdul Rauf Malik -- Book Series on India -- Portrayals of India -- End and New Beginnings -- Notes -- 3: 'Political Knowledge' of India in Berlin -- Background: From Eudaimonia to Auslandswissenschaft -- Study of India at the Seminar for Oriental Languages until 1933 -- The Seminar for Oriental Studies: 1933-1936 -- The Ausland Hochschule and Nazi Politics: 1937-1939 -- Study of India at the AF ( Auslandswissenschaftliches Institut) and the DAWI ( Deutsche Auslandswissenschaftliches Institut): 1940-1944. Separate Section on India: Ludwig Alsdorf -- AF in 1944-1945 -- DAWI: Political Research of Foreign Countries -- End of the AF and the DAWI -- Notes -- 4: 'India Experts' and the Indian Legion -- Background: An Indian Legion in Germany -- Indian Legion: Political Context -- Interpreters and Cultural Mediators -- Linguistic Devices as Propaganda Tools: Ernst Bannerth and Otto Spies -- Bhaiband : Axis Propaganda, Anti-Colonialism, and 'Expert Knowledge' of India -- 'Long live Hitler! Long live Netaji': Legitimizing German Authority -- Führer Cult and Anti-Bolshevism -- (Fake) News of War -- Specialized Knowledge of India and Orientalist Stereotypes -- The Guru, the Prophet, and the Gods -- Mother India and her Children -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Continuity and Discontinuity -- Self-Mobilization and Knowledge Discourses -- Rewards -- Navigating Knowledge and Power -- Interventions of the SS -- Coping with the Nazi Past -- Three Questions -- Utility Issues -- Impact -- The Way Ahead -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary Source Archives -- Secondary Sources -- Index.
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.
9780192887559
Germany-Foreign relations-1933-1945.
Fernzugriff