The Vernacular Führer: Hitler and the Nazi Movement in Tamil Biographies of the 1930s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Locating the First Hindi Translation of Goethe’s Faust (Part One) Fāusṭ (Prathama Bhāga) by Bholanath Sharma 23
6. Translating Economics Across the German-South Asian Divide: Muhammad Iqbal, Zakir Husain and Intermediating Ideas Across Languages, Paradigms, and Disciplines 45
7. Hermann Gundert: Missions, Malabar, and the Making of Modern Malayalam 75
8. Germans, Casteless Tamils, and Brahminical Sciolism in Early Colonial South India 97
9. The Vernacular Führer: Hitler and the Nazi Movement in Tamil Biographies of the 1930s 125
10. Translation and Anticolonial Revivalism: S. R. Rajwade’s Appropriation of F. W. Nietzsche 151
11. Translating Marx and Engels: Adhikari, Dange and the Indian Revolution 173
12. Pu. La. Deshpande’s तीन पैशाचा तमाशा (Tīn Paiśācā Tamāśā): Brecht in Marathi 195
13. The Birth of the Ascetic Leader. Die Botschaft des Mahatma Gandhi in Troubled Weimar Germany 217
14. Tagore in Germany, Austria and Switzerland: Translation, Archives and Histories 243
15. Expanding Domains: Interactions between Telugu and German Worlds 267
16. International GDR Literature, Censorship and the Publication of Translations from Modern Indian Languages in the GDR 293
17. Reciprocal Translation: From Legibility to Mutual Intelligibility 323
18. Notes on Contributors 335
19. Index 339