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Baijayanti Roy, "The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg argued modern Indians were 'fallen Aryans' who lost their traits by intermingling with 'dark skinned Aboriginals.'
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A study of how Nazi-era scholarship, anti-colonial politics, and empire collided over India.
Baijayanti Roy's The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism treats knowledge of India as something that was moved around, traded, and put to work inside Nazi-era institutions, with Aryan theory, the India Institute, and Indian anti-colonial politics all held in the same…
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