In spite of a great deal of evidence that suggests the contrary, writing on fascism as a phenomenon, and the conversations surrounding it, whether historical or contemporaneous, continue to situate themselves within Europe. But what appear to be the epistemological boundaries of Europe are in fact only its geo-political domains. Perhaps the discussions so far have been the consequence of overly reductive comparative frameworks—ones marked less by a genuine post-mortem of ideas and the contexts that birthed them than by a hyperfocus on entanglements and similarities. Ironically, another contributing factor may also be the ever-increasing tendency to emphasize regional specificities that has characterised historical research from and about the Global South and the consequent arguments against any effort to compare political ideas from outside that framework even when they are evidently similar. To better understand fascism(s)—both in history and in our own times—we must look elsewhere and consider, at the very least, the plausibility of this political idea’s concurrent roots. In this paper I shall examine one of these concurrent roots, in the Indian Subcontinent from the 1830s to the present time.