March 20, 2025
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Dr. Baijayanti Roy studied modern Indian and modern European history at the University of Calcutta in India. She received her PhD from the Goethe University, Frankfurt. Her dissertation has been published as a monograph, titled The making of a Gentleman Nazi: Albert Speer`s Politics of History in the Federal Republic of Germany. Her most recent book, The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism: Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the 'Third Reich', was just published on January 10. She is currently affiliated to the History Department of the Goethe University. She has published widely and spoken on different subjects including Nazi Germany, Hindu nationalism, the history of German Indology as well as aspects of the historical relationship between Germany and India.