About the Book: Hitler and India
Hitlers autobiography, Mein Kampf, is a perennial bestseller in India, with
even streetside bookstalls prominently displaying stacks of it. The name
Hitler--anathema almost everywhere else in the world--is tossed about casually
in the Indian subcontinent, not infrequently invoked in praise. Many Indians
still harbour the notion that the Fuhrer was a friend of the Indian people and
had extended wholehearted support to their freedom struggle. To journalist
Vaibhav Purandare, this clearly suggested that Indians continued to be largely
unaware of the German dictators views on India, in spite of the fact that they
are unambiguously expressed in his own writings.