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Nazism and Hindu Nationalism

Mention ‘Nazism’ and ‘Hinduism’ together and you may think of swastikas. We know that Nazi symbolism drew on various racist European anthropologies. Here, a mythical fair-skinned “Aryan” race subjugated India. In a socially-Darwinist spirit, they used religion as a political tool to establish a caste system which integrated the local population but maintained racial segregation. Keep reading