The present book which appears also in Russian, in St. Petersburg, in 2003-had been first conceived in 1948. Surprisingly, during the half a century that had elapsed, its theme had not been elaborated in its wide historical context. Its present treatment has been stimulated particularly by the findings of Hannah Arendt on West European roots of Nazism and its partly colonial genesis, by the author's lifelong admiration for India's independence struggle, his work ...
