Asit Krishna Mukherji

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Asit Krishna Mukherji (1898-March 21, 1977) was a Bengali Brahmin with National Socialist convictions who published pro-Axis journals. He married esoteric Hitlerist Savitri Devi in 1940 in order to protect her from deportation or internment.

Mukherji attended the University of London taking a doctorate in history. After graduating, he traveled in the Soviet Union. Unimpressed with Marxist materialism, he turned down several offers to work for communist newspapers back in India. He began, instead, to publish The New Mercury in collaboration with Sri Vinaya Datta. Openly proclaiming its support for Nazi Germany and Aryan racism, it expressed admiration for the race laws and Hellenic ideals. Mukherji recognised parallels between the Third Reich and Hindu nationalism: common use of the swastika on the Nazi and pan-Hindu flag; the similarity of the Hitler Youth and K.B. Hedgewar's Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh boys; the challenging of British authority.

In January 1938, Mukherji met Savitri Devi who was deeply impressed with his knowledge. They married on June 9, 1940 in Calcutta.

After The New Mercury was closed down by the British government, he began publishing The Eastern Economist in collaboration with the Japanese legation from 1938-1941.

Mukherji used his connections with Subhash Chandra Bose and the Japanese authorities to put them in contact with one another, thus facilitating the formation of the Indian National Army.

After the war he made his living as an astrologer and had his wife's books printed.

Works

• A History of Japan, 1945

References

• Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 1998, ISBN 0-8147-3111-2
• The Saffron Swastika by Koenraad Elst, Voice of India, Delhi 1999 ISBN 81-85990-69-7

External links

• The strange case of Savitri Devi and Zydenbos vs. Rajaram: a Case Study in Aryan Invasion Polemic by Koenraad Elst
• Savitri Devi: Life and Work
• 1949: Prophetess of the Saucers from the UFO ROUNDUP Volume 7 Number 39
• Shinto - The Way of the Gods by Savitri Devi (portions of which may have first appeared in The Eastern Economist)