Talk:Savitri Devi

Exact sources of quotations ought to be given (title, place of publication, publisher, year, page)!

Savitri Devi is not an Esoteric Hitlerist. Esoteric Hitlerism was founded by Chilean poet and diplomat Miguel Serrano. He was in contact with Savitri Devi and probably got inspired by her. Her approach, however, was not esoteric but purely religious.

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Quotes should almost always be moved to the Talk page with a note that they were removed from the article, giving full reasoning. If it is a misattribution, the quote should not be removed, instead being moved to a "Misattributed" section, where explanation of the misattribution can be made in a subbullet.

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Also, some quotes could be moved to other more appropriate pages, or could be trimmed, instead of deleted. --ᘙ (talk) 11:45, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

I just think these quotes are very boring and do not have Wikiquote:Quotability. They're just statements of dry factual matters without being "particularly witty, pithy, wise, eloquent, or poignant". Also Koenraad Elst and Bouchet are themselves far-right activists and presenting their dislike of Goodrick-Clarke's actual scholarship as equivalent to his work strikes me as egregious; it's also not even about Devi, really, and what is is as I said, not "particularly witty, pithy, wise, eloquent, or poignant". Probably should have moved them here but I've been in the practice of removing too many quotes for copyright reasons, where it is inappropriate to move them to the talk page, so my bad for forgetting that here when that is not the case. PARAKANYAA (talk) 22:12, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Recently deleted quotes:

• Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke has written a book on the strange case of a French-Greek lady who converted to Hinduism and later went on to work for the neo-Nazi cause, Maximiani Portas a.k.a. Savitri Devi. The book is generally of high scholarly quality and full of interesting detail, but when it comes to Indian politics, the author is woefully misinformed by his less than impartisan sources. He squarely places himself outside the scholarly community and inside the Indian Marxist propaganda machine
  • The Saffron Swastika (2001), Volume II. Elst, Koenraad.

• Christian Bouchet dismisses Goodrick-Clarke as a "pseudo-historian":... "Goodrick-Clarke has dispensed with all research work and has merely relayed Savitri Devi's own sayings without analysing or criticizing them." The problem is that this single source, her autobiography, is not supported by any independent evidence, and that she can easily have refashioned her past: "For the period from her birth until after World War 2, we have to trust Savitri Devi Mukherji for her life story. However, it is obvious that she herself has arranged her biography a posteriori in order to harmonize it with the themes defended in her books." ... At this point, one explanation becomes inescapable: "It is evident and very clear that Savitri Devi Mukherji has 'arranged' her biography in order to construct herself a persona apt to shine in the tiny circle of neo-Nazism"
  • Christian Bouchet about Savitri Devi's autobiography. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad. Return of the Swastika: Hate and Hysteria versus Hindu Sanity (2007), ch. 4.

I think the Christian Bouchet quote can be extracted from the longer quote, like this:

• For the period from her birth until after World War 2, we have to trust Savitri Devi Mukherji for her life story. However, it is obvious that she herself has arranged her biography a posteriori in order to harmonize it with the themes defended in her books...
  It is evident and very clear that Savitri Devi Mukherji has 'arranged' her biography in order to construct herself a persona apt to shine in the tiny circle of neo-Nazism.
  • Christian Bouchet, in Savitri Devi Mukherji: Le National-Socialisme et la Tradition Indienne, with contributions by Vittorio de Cecco, Claudio Mutti and Christian Bouchet, published in the series Cahiers de la Radicalité by Avatar-éditions, Paris/Dublin 2004. pp 88-91. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad. Return of the Swastika: Hate and Hysteria versus Hindu Sanity (2007), ch. 4.