1. So who is this Vikram Vasan who accused me of being part of the Hindu hard right? His details can be found here
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le.ac.uk
2. In his own words:
"I have since worked on article-length pieces on the political thought of the founder of Hindu nationalism, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar."
When you read this it is hardly going to be favourable
"I have since worked on article-length pieces on the political thought of the founder of Hindu nationalism, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar."
When you read this it is hardly going to be favourable
3. Research includes:
Indian Political Thought, c. 1750 to present
Liberalism and Republicanism in the Global South
Hindu Nationalism/Hindutva
Postcolonialism and Political Emotion
The Political Theory of Race and Caste
Indian Political Thought, c. 1750 to present
Liberalism and Republicanism in the Global South
Hindu Nationalism/Hindutva
Postcolonialism and Political Emotion
The Political Theory of Race and Caste
4. Publications include:
'Savarkar before Hindutva: Sovereignty, Republicanism, and Populism in India. c.1900-1920', Modern Intellectual History 18, 4 (2021), pp. 1106-1129.
'Savarkar before Hindutva: Sovereignty, Republicanism, and Populism in India. c.1900-1920', Modern Intellectual History 18, 4 (2021), pp. 1106-1129.
5. Vasani writes:
"When the Hindu nationalists demolished the 16th-century Babri Masjid mosque, they did so in the belief that it had been built by the Muslim Mughal emperor Babur on the site of an ancient Hindu temple that marked the birthplace of the god Ram."
"When the Hindu nationalists demolished the 16th-century Babri Masjid mosque, they did so in the belief that it had been built by the Muslim Mughal emperor Babur on the site of an ancient Hindu temple that marked the birthplace of the god Ram."
6. Further:
"But the historical and archaeological evidence for the existence of this is hotly debated by experts."
No it isn't! That's why The Islamic invaders wrote about destruction of Hindu temples with open glee.
"But the historical and archaeological evidence for the existence of this is hotly debated by experts."
No it isn't! That's why The Islamic invaders wrote about destruction of Hindu temples with open glee.
7. Vasani goes on:
"The bulldozer has since become a Hindu nationalist symbol and even internationalised by BJP troll-farms supporting Israeli actions in Gaza."
"The bulldozer has since become a Hindu nationalist symbol and even internationalised by BJP troll-farms supporting Israeli actions in Gaza."
8. Yet here he is writing on the website of the Holocaust Centre in Huddersfield, linking Savarkar simultaneously with Nazism and Zionism
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hcn.org.uk
9. Creatures like Vasani are no different from the willing lackeys who served the British Raj. Worse they resemble the ghetto police, Jewish opportunists and criminals who ran Nazi policies in wartime Europe and helped load fellow Jews on the trains to gas chambers.
10. Based on a true story, the biopic "Stella. A Life." is about a young Jewish woman who turned in hundreds of Jews to the Gestapo to save herself and her parents.
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11. Kapos were rewarded for their work. They were granted privileges. They received better food, clothing and housing. Wearing a distinct armband displaying their status, they were spared hard labour and harsh treatment.
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12. The story of Vital Hasson, leader of Thessaloniki’s Jewish police who sent families — and his own relatives — to Auschwitz, shows that identity doesn’t always determine destiny
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timesofisrael.com
13. In 2007 a white power neonazi group formed by Russian immigrants who had used their Jewish ancestry to reside in Israel was found even in that country
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timesofisrael.com
14. So manifestations of Hindu-hate by people with Hindu names such as Vasani shouldn't surprise us, especially their desperate attempts to claim thee is a link between India's revolutionary freedom fighters and Nazism. Savarkar was proud of India hosting Jews for 2000 years.
15. To call such a man antisemitic and pro Nazi is not just lazy history, but insulting to the millions who suffered under the longest hatred. The fact that the Holocaust museum even puts this hateful material up is sickening.
Having been to SOAS myself, all these peer reviews do is reinforce the pre existing Hinduphobia
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