Title: “The Use of Knowledge Discourses on India for Nazi Political Goals”<
/p> Abstract: Dr. Roy's monograph engages with the littl
e-researched fact that from the beginning of Nazi rule in 1933\, different
German institutions became interested in disseminating propaganda for the n
ew 'Reich' in India. From 1938\, as war between Germany and Britain appeare
d inevitable\, the Nazi government began strategically expressing sympathy
for the Indian anti-colonial movement. Such efforts gained momentum after t
he Indian anti-colonialist leader Subhas Chandra Bose arrived in Berlin in
1941\, seeking Germany's help to liberate India. Together with Bose\, vario
us organs of the Nazi government became involved in conducting virulent ant
i-British and pro-German propaganda aimed at Indians. This entailed acquiri
ng knowledge of India's past as well as present. Dr. Roy's work examines fo
ur German organizations which deployed various kinds of knowledge of India
for fulfilling Germany`s propaganda objectives. These ventures were s
ustained by a number of German academics\, as well as some Indian anti-colo
nial intellectuals living in Germany. The focus of my book is on these know
ledge providers and propagandists as well as on the knowledge discourses us
ed by them within the framework of the four organizations under review. Missed the lecture on Janua
ry 14th? You can access the video and audio
recording on UBC’s cIRcle database.About the Speaker
Dr. Bai
jayanti Roy is a lecturer and researcher at the Goethe University\, Frankfu
rt am Main\, Germany. She received her PhD from the same university. Her di
ssertation has been published as a monograph titled “The making of a Ge
ntleman Nazi: Albert Speer's Politics of History in the Federal Republic of
Germany” (2016). She has published and spoken on different subjects i
ncluding Nazi Germany\, Hindu nationalism and the history of German Indolog
y. Her forthcoming monograph\, "The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti
-Colonialism: Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the Third Reich" will be published by Oxford University Press in September 2024.Wa
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