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This week, we spoke with Maia Ramnath about her essay contribution to ¡No Pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches From a World in Crisis. The essay was entitled "The Other Aryan Supremacy: Fighting Hindu Fascism in the South Asia Diaspora".

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For the hour, we talk about about Hindutva, a brand of Indian ethno-religious-nationalism some have called fascism, the organizations that carry it in India and in the sub-continental or Desi diaspora around the world, some of the ideas and actions attributed to it, Islamophobia, Hindutva's connections with the project of Israel, also it's overlaps with far right, Nazi-inspired ideologies and how non-Desi anti-fascists can stand in solidarity against it.

Some publications by or including Maia Ramnath:

• Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire
• Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle
• Art for Life: Conversations with the Progressive Writers Movement on Pens, Swords, and Internationalism, from Antifascism to Afro-Asian Solidarity (paperback / ebook)
• ¡No Pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches From a World in Crisis (edited by Shane Burley). The essay was entitled "The Other Aryan Supremacy: Fighting Hindu Fascism in the South Asia Diaspora". For audiophiles out there, there is an audiobook version of this book available from AK Press, though it's a little pricey it is over 20 hours long!

Other interviews on related topics:

• Yeah Nah Pasaran! interview with Raja of The Humanist Project
• Nazi Lies podcast with Shyam Ranganathan
• 12 Rules for What with Amardeep Dhillon

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