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[[Outlook India]] reported that the very prominent politician L.K. Advani has a "heavily marked" copy of the book from which Advani quoted freely the passages that discussed him. <ref>Outlook Apr 8-14, 2008</ref> |
[[Outlook India]] reported that the very prominent politician L.K. Advani has a "heavily marked" copy of the book from which Advani quoted freely the passages that discussed him. <ref>Outlook Apr 8-14, 2008</ref> |
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JY Camus called the work as Elst's "magnum opus".<ref>Camus, J. Y. (2007). The European extreme right and religious extremism. Středoevropské politické studie (CEPSR), (4), 263-279.</ref> |
JY Camus called the work as Elst's "magnum opus".<ref>Camus, J. Y. (2007). The European extreme right and religious extremism. Středoevropské politické studie (CEPSR), (4), 263-279.</ref> |
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==Refrences== |
==Refrences== |
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File:Koenraad Elst - The Saffron Swastika.jpg | |
Author | Koenraad Elst |
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Language | English |
Subject | Hindutva and Hindu nationalism |
Published | 2001, Voice of India |
Pages | 1070 |
ISBN | 8185990697 |
The Saffron Swastika: The Notion of "Hindu Fascism" is a book written by Koenraad Elst and published as two volumes in 2001. It discusses in detail the concepts of Hindutva and Hindu nationalism. He also argues against the idea that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh are fascist in ideology. In the foreword, he writes about such allegations that “So far, the polemical arrows have all been shot from one side, replies from the other side being extremely rare or never more than piecemeal”. Furthermore, he tries to show that personalities like Veer Savarkar or Golwalkar were not fascist or racist and also writes in detail about Savitri Devi. Other topics that are treated by Elst in this book are the caste system and the swastika.
The book contains also parts from his Ph.D. thesis from the Catholic University of Leuven.[citation needed]
The author describes the book in the following words:
- "A very ambitious 2-volume book, of which the only shortcoming is that it could have been even more complete. It dissects processes of slander and its application to the media’s hostile treatment of the organized Hindu movement. It is the only publication in the world (except for its sequel, Return of the Swastika) to analyze and refute the now-common allegation that Guru Golwalkar in his book We (1939) proves to be some sort of Nazi. "
- "In that year, I also brought out the two-volume The Saffron Swastika. On the Notion of ""Hindu Fascism", the only book in the world to analyse this much-used line of discourse (except for my sequel from 2006, Return of the Swastika), both by foreign India-watchers and by the Indian secularists"[1]
Outlook India reported that the very prominent politician L.K. Advani has a "heavily marked" copy of the book from which Advani quoted freely the passages that discussed him. [2]
JY Camus called the work as Elst's "magnum opus".[3]
Refrences
- ^ http://koenraadelst.blogspot.de/2014/01/what-have-i-done.html
- ^ Outlook Apr 8-14, 2008
- ^ Camus, J. Y. (2007). The European extreme right and religious extremism. Středoevropské politické studie (CEPSR), (4), 263-279.
External links
- Review by Ramesh N. Rao
- Interview that also mentions the book
- The eternal return of Nazi nonsense: Savitri Devi's last writings Discussion about chapter V. "Savitri Devi and the "Hindu-Aryan Myth""