[INDOLOGY] Hitler and MLBD

[Artur Karp]

Dear All,

An Amazon-sold edition of "Mein Kampf" was published by Jaico, an Indian
publishing house:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mein-Kampf-Adolf-Hitler/dp/817224164X

Regards,

Artur Karp




2014-05-19 15:15 GMT+02:00 Mary Storm <mnstorm at mac.com>:

> Dear All,
>
> As a point of interest, do you know there used to be a small "Hitler
> Mandir" in Muzaffarnagar?  A few years ago it was removed to widen the road.
>
> Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's book on Savitri Devi, might also be of interest
> to those wondering about the Subash Chandra Bose Hitler flirtation. Pretty
> crazy stuff.
>
> All Best,
> Mary
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 19-May-2014, at 6:05 pm, "Jan E.M. Houben" <jemhouben at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Dominik,
> Thanks for this well-formulated and timely statement.
> To facilitate sharing and add momentum a Twitter link may be useful as
> suggested by Jean-Luc Chevillard (#MLBDcontroversy).
> On the other hand, it may not be very useful to go through the Times of
> India or the Hindu, as a topic related to Hitler's crimes against humanity
> cannot be expected to have any significant impact even on an educated
> Indian public (for background see the article link provided by Luis
> Gonzales-Reiman). I have noted the very easy and trivial use of the word
> "hitler" in various Indian languages where it seems to have become
> lexicalized in the sense of "severe person" (see also the occasional use of
> the term in well-known Bollywood films and the soap serial Hitler Didi
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Didi).
> Jan Houben
>
> On 19 May 2014 11:37, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I wrote to MLDB, protesting about their publication of Mein
>> Kampf.  My letter is open, and I've posted a copy<http://cikitsa.blogspot.com/2014/05/mlbd-publishing-mein-kampf.html>to one of my blogs.
>>
>>
>> Dominik Wujastyk
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15 May 2014 19:54, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I see from the April 2014 issue of the MLBD Newsletter that MLBD is
>>> bringing out an edition of *Mein Kampf *by Adolph Hitlar (sic).  It
>>> nestles incongruously between Alonso on the Mahabharata and the Black on
>>> the Upanisads.
>>>
>>> <IMG_20140515_193801.jpg>
>>> ​
>>>
>>> This was a shock!  My immediate reaction was that I wish furiously to
>>> sever all links with MLBD.  I have already written to Penguin Delhi, asking
>>> to withdraw my book from them because of their scandalous pulping of
>>> Doniger's book.  Now MLDB is publishing "Hitlar."  Has Indian publishing
>>> gone completely mad?
>>>
>>> My second reaction was, it's not wrong to publish even Hitlar's
>>> writings, because how else can interested people find out how misguided he
>>> was, and how else can historians combat his ideas.  Free speech and all
>>> that.
>>>
>>> But my final conclusion is that this is indeed completely inappropriate
>>> because MLBD presents itself as an Indological publisher, and *Mein
>>> Kampf* isn't even remotely connected with serious Indology.  Even
>>> participants in the "Indology under National Socialism" debate don't really
>>> need a new edition of *Kampf*, surely.
>>>
>>> I shall therefore be writing to MLBD in protest in the strongest terms
>>> about this pubication.  I urge all my colleagues to do the same.  If
>>> someone wants to set up a petition, I'll gladly sign it.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Dominik Wujastyk
>>>
>>
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