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November 08, 2012

On the Indian Readers of Hitler's Mein Kampf (EPW)

in: Economic and Political Weekly, Vol - XLVII No. 46, November 17, 2012
- Special Issues

This paper brings an analytical perspective to bear on media reports on
the popularity of Mein Kampf in India and evocations of Hitler in Indian
political and cultural discourses. The basis and implications of such
reports are examined for the Indian context, and relatedly for North
American and European contexts. It is argued that Hitler and his manifesto
are now evoked in India and elsewhere in fractured and dispersed ways that
elide their ideological significance. The coherence and continuing
potentiality of fascist ideology and Nazi-like programmes are noted, and it
is suggested that their conceptual shadow remains recuperable amidst
contemporary circulation of Mein Kampf and evocations of H itler

http://www.epw.in/special-issues/indian-readers-hitlers-mein-kampf.html