Nazism: Sri Aurobindo and Netaji Subhash

Dwarves flinging dung: This is a particularly distasteful post on Netaji; Traitorji Subhash Chandra Bose, the premise of the post is that since Netaji supported the axis power, he betrayed country. Although it is fashionable nowadays to disparage the famous, this diatribe lacks any sense. First a little perspective, during second world war there were broadly (and when I say this, I really do mean it) two camps,

• one which adhered enemy-of-enemy-is- my-friend school of real politics and favored aligning with Nazis and Fascists, Netaji belonged to this, so did a lots of educated Indians.
• There was another school which supported allied war efforts for many reasons, Guru Aurobindo belonged to this, he saw Nazism for the monster it was and decided that even at its worst English imperialism was better than German Reich.

The idea that Europeans have superior genes to “savages” was principle of this “pseudo-science”. Nietzsche, as all 19th century philosophers misappropriated Indian symbols to propound an “Aryan Race”, Hitler in turn like other cunning demagogues perverted further for his invidious ideology. The point of this is to show that for whatever reasons leaders and elites in west did not realize the horror of this monster.

What is more the horror of holocaust was not realized until end of war. (This is not completely true, west knew of atrocities against Jews before war, but decided to look other way, when the war commenced, the Jews who survived the horror told the story, but disinformation are not uncommon in war, so there was no agreement on how much credibility to put at this.)

No wonder than Netaji decided that alliance with Hitler was “useful”for purpose of Indian independence.My views on this, I respect and admire Netaji for his selfless love for India. However I do not agree with his ideology, just as I do not agree with ideology of Veer Savarkar or Bhagat Singh. I admire Guru Aurobindo for his clear belief that Nazi Germany posed a greater threat to world than Imperial English. Only a true patriot and courageous man could do that. posted by doubtinggaurav Monday, February 27, 2006 @ 8:32 PM