Indisputable link
"Last month, a teacher of political science in Uttar Pradesh’s Sharda University posed this examination question to his students: ‘Do you find any similarities between Fascism/ Nazism and Hindu right-wing (Hindutva)? Elaborate with the argument.’ The teacher was suspended by the university authorities, on the grounds that the very posing of the question was “totally averse” to the “great national identity” of our country and “may have the potential for fomenting social discord”. (see https://thewire.in/ education/sharda-university-professor-hindutva-nazism)
This column seeks to answer the question the teacher in Sharda University was forbidden from asking his students. I use, as my main sources, the writings of the Italian historian, Marzia Casolari, in particular an essay she published in the Economic and Political Weekly in 2000 titled “Hindutva’s Foreign Tie-up in the 1930s” (see https://www.epw. in/journal/2000/04/special-articles/ hindutvas-foreign-tie-1930s.html), and a book she published twenty years later, titled In the Shadow of the Swastika: The Relationships Between Indian Radical Nationalism, Italian Fascism and Nazism (available at https://www.amazon.in/ Shadow-Swastika-RelationshipsNationalism-Routledge-ebook/dp/ B08DPXXLF6)."
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https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/indisputable-link-hindutvas-italian-connection/cid/1868274
