Brahmin Asit Krishna Mukherji
Asit Krishna Mukherji (1898-March 21, 1977) was a Bengali Brahmin with National Socialist convictions who published pro-Axis journals. In order to protect her from deportation or internment, he married esoteric Hitlerist Savitri Devi in 1940. 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.[1][2] Openly proclaiming its support for Germany, it expressed admiration for the race laws and Hellenic ideals. Mukherji recognized parallels between the Third Reich and Hindu nationalism: common use of the swastika on the NS and pan-Hindu flag; the similarity of the Hitler Youth and K.B. Hedgewar's Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh boys and the challenging of British authority.