''Defiance'' is a book, first published 1951 in

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. It is a memoir of her arrest, trial, and imprisonment on the charge of distributing

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propaganda in Germany in 1949. The book is dedicated to Herta Ehlert and opens with quotations from the '' Bhagawad Gita'' and

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Full text of ''Defiance''
at the Savitri Devi Archive 1951 non-fiction books Books by Savitri Devi {{fascism-stub