Editing Savitri Devi (section)

== Nazism and move to India ==
During the 1930s, Portas increasingly came to admire [[Nazism]] and [[Adolf Hitler]]. She read and greatly appreciated ''[[The Myth of the Twentieth Century]]'', a lengthy book on Nazi ideology written by [[Alfred Rosenberg]]; academic [[Jeffrey Kaplan (academic)|Jeffrey Kaplan]] commented that Portas may have been one of the only people to have read the book, which even Hitler had found unreadable, in full.{{sfn|Kaplan|2000|p=92}} In 1932, she traveled to India in search of a living [[Paganism|pagan]] Aryan culture, believing that the country represented an ideal racial caste system.{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|1998|pp=24–27}} Once in India, she studied classical Indian texts, perceiving them as evidence of the "greatness of the Aryan race".{{sfn|Kaplan|2000|p=92}}

Formally adhering to [[Hinduism]], she took the name Savitri Devi ({{Langx|hi|सावित्री देवी}}), in honor of the Indian sun god Savitri.{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|1998|pp=39–40}} In 1937 she volunteered to work at the Hindu Mission,{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|1998|p=42}} and wrote ''[[A Warning to the Hindus]]'' in order to offer her support for [[Hindu nationalism]] and independence, and rally resistance to the spread of [[Christianity]] and [[Islam]] in India.{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|1998|p=52}} During the 1930s, she distributed pro-[[Axis powers|Axis]] propaganda and engaged in intelligence gathering on the British in India.{{sfn|Greer|2003|p=130}} She claimed that, during [[World War II]], she enabled [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] (the leader of the Axis-affiliated [[Indian National Army]]) to contact representatives of the [[Empire of Japan]].<ref name="Basu-1999">{{cite news |last=Basu |first=Shrabani |date=March 1999 |title=The spy who loved Hitler |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/mar/27hitler.htm |access-date=2012-11-06 |newspaper=Rediff News |language=en}}</ref>

On 9 June 1940 in Calcutta,{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|2002|p=95}} Devi married [[Asit Krishna Mukherji]],{{sfn|Kaplan|2000|p=92}} a [[Bengal]]i pro-Nazi and an Indian nationalist,{{sfn|Kaplan|2000|p=92}} who edited the pro-German newspaper ''New Mercury''. It was the only pro-Nazi paper in India, and Devi had read it prior to their meeting; the German ambassador to India commented that no one had helped them in India to the extent Mukherji had.{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|2002|pp=94–95}} During 1941, Devi chose to interpret [[Operation Lustre|Allied military support]] for Greece, against Italian and German forces, as an invasion of Greece. Devi and Mukherji lived in [[Calcutta]] and continued to gather intelligence for the Axis cause. This included entertaining Allied personnel, which gave Devi and Mukherji an opportunity to question them about military matters. The information which they gathered was passed on to Japanese intelligence officials and the Japanese military found it useful when they launched attacks against Allied airbases and army units.<ref name="Basu-1999" /> During this time she wrote three books, in addition to a play about the Egyptian pharaoh [[Akhenaten]]; this work is kept in print by the occult order [[AMORC]].{{sfn|Greer|2003|p=131}}