"Mein Kampf" is interesting just as a history book as it depicts the society of its time. It is interesting the admiration that Hitler shows for America ("Nation and state" chapter). In fact, most of his views came from America, from Henry Ford I (the "international jew"), the program for assimilation of Germanic immigrants and peoples, eugenic theories etc. Because America before WWII was very different from now, and in fact Hitler was a very "American" leader for Germany: a "self-made man", a "common man" who became the Fuhrer, something which never before had been accepted by the German Aristocracy. By then a great part of the World was part of the British Empire, which was a Maritime Empire, so for Hitler the alternative was a Continental Empire like America, but instead of "Go West" he talked about "Go East", and instead of Indian tribes which had to be deprieved from their lands, he talked about Slav tribes which could also be deprieved from their lands at least to the Caucausus and to the Volga German Republic of Russia, so all the rich black lands and the oil could be colonised by millions of ethnic Germans. And many people in that area (from Ukrainian Nationalist to Chechens, Crimean Tatars etc) had suffered so much under Stalin that they at first supported Hitler against the Soviets.

One of the reasons why Europeans cannot comprehend the rise of Hitler's Third Reich or why in the 21th Mein Kampf may be paper in India is based on European sense of illusion and douplespeak when it comes to their own wider historical brutality and cruelty. Perhaps Indians of today know their own history and a resulty are not surprised by Hitler’s racist ideology: the idea that Indian, the Africans and the Indigenous people around world conquered by Europe were inferior worthy of domination, dispossession and destruction were shared by all of Europe. Hitler and the Third Reich turn this diabolical project into itself and into the heart of Europe. Hannah Arendt noted this aspect of the rise of fascism in Europe in her book the Origin of Totalitarianism. But European historians by and large still recycle the myth that Hitler’s Third Reich and his racist ideas were mutation, aberration. They have turn their gaze at "the German soul" rather than examining the historical facts of European ideology of racial supremacy, expansionism and colonialism. This is why today Europe is fighting illegal wars of conquest in Iraq and Afghanistan. Europe has not yet looked itself in the mirror. Perhaps popularisation of Mein Kampf in the East would force Europe to reconsider its own historical and present crimes of expansionism and racial/corporate/militaristic/technology supremacist mindset.

India is going to be one of the future economic powers, so if their business people are reading "Mein Kampf" then maybe the rest of us had better understand that book a little better. Ugh, what a model. But then,"The Art of War" is still popular in some business schools, too. Not saying the books are the same, but people sometimes use unusual methods of thinking to get that "edge" in business and politics. I hope this is not indicating a future direction of Indian thinking.

Actually Hitler and Nazi-like supremacist thinking is in the DNA of India's Brahminists. The problem with western understanding of India is that the international media only reports information from the perspective of Brahminist-Hindus who form less than 8% of the Hindu population (castes such as Brahmins, Banias, Lalas). After capturing state power in 1947, Brahminist communities have done very well in India at the expense of the rest by systematically corrupting, monopolizing and looting all state institutions established by the British. Under the ruse of “Nehruvian socialism”, the Brahminists emerged as the primary rent-seeking commissar class in bureaucracies and the vast state-run industry apparatus. Even in the private sector, economic opportunity and access is primarily reserved for these castes under the ‘permit & license raj’ system. There is how the former clerical-class hired to serve British officers became the new Indian elite and establishment over the past 6 decades.

(. . . Continued) Despite their political affiliation, Brahminists are indoctrinated and motivated by hegemonic ideologies spawned by fascist right-wing organizations such as the “Arya Samaj” (“Aryan Society”, established 1876), Brahmo-Samaj, HinduMahaSaba, RSS (1926, modeled as the brown-shirted Nazi SS), etc. In a largely mythical and delusional history, Brahminists collectively fancy themselves as some perpetual ruling-class of India while the objective historical record clearly shows i) mostly non-Brahmanist rule in the subcontinent over the past 2500 years (e.g. Buddhist empires, Muslim empires, Sikh rule in north) and ii) continual influxes of peoples and cultures from central asia who formed new ruling orders (e.g. Greeks, Indo-Scythians or Sakas, Huns, Mughals, Pathans, British). This divergence between historical reality and Brahminist supremacist fantasy makes them wish to annihilate the identity and history of entire religions, peoples and cultures in southasia. This is Hitler or Nazi-type mentality. Western media and journalists are largely parroting the ‘spin’ and propaganda on India from Brahminists who form around 5% of “Indians” and 8% of “Hindus”! In the west, they act as self-appointed ambassadors of their ‘Casteocracy’. This is why information on ‘real India’ is blocked and replaced by Brahminist spin on 'shining India’.

No book with a sale of 100,000 copies in 12 years can get on any 'Best Seller' list in India. Books that are Best Sellers in India - with a population of nearly 1.2 billion people - sell 100,000 copies a month to even qualify! What ever 'Best Seller' list you refer to is certainly not genuine. Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince sold 100,000 copies on the first day. Furthermore, if the story had been researched you would find that many more copies of Mein Mampf are solf per year in the US than in India. It was the US government that seized the copyright during the Second World War and in 1979, Houghton Mifflin, the U.S. publisher of the book, bought the rights from the government. India is just one of the many countries it is sold in. Also, it can be bought from many websites like Amazon.com and Borders Book Store. So what is this story and all the fuss about?

No book with a sale of 100,000 copies in 12 years can get on any 'Best Seller' list in India. Books that are Best Sellers in India - with a population of nearly 1.2 billion people - sell 100,000 copies a month to even qualify! What ever 'Best Seller' list you refer to is certainly not genuine. Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince sold 100,000 copies on the first day. Furthermore, if the story had been researched you would find that many more copies of Mein Mampf are solf per year in the US than in India. It was the US government that seized the copyright during the Second World War and in 1979, Houghton Mifflin, the U.S. publisher of the book, bought the rights from the government. India is just one of the many countries it is sold in. Also, it can be bought from many websites like Amazon.com and Borders Book Store. So what is this story and all the fuss about?