Fascism in Europe, exile in India. This is a relatively unexploredarea of
cultural, historical and literary research. The history ofemigration of
anti-fascist writers, scholars and artistsmost ofwhom were of Jewish and
minority originsfrom Central Europe,especially Germany, to North and South
America and other paris ofthe Western world as well as the former Soviet Union
is welldocumented. Work has also been carried out on exile in
non-Europeancentres like Shanghai. Less well known is the fact that during
theperiod of fascist rule in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, a numberof Central
European emigrants moved to India. This emigrationmovement and the varied
histories of the emigres themselves have sofar been largely