depicted “brothers who fought side by side” and the land itself was described as an endangered “mother”, which served as a symbol to encourage devotion to state. Propaganda also aimed to encourage women to replace domestic 'male' roles like factory work but also to do so within the family. Common mother propaganda encouraged adoption and domestic rekindling. Mothers with a minimum of seven children were awarded publicly for their efforts in helping the motherland, which further encouraged the devotion of woman to help the war effort. Figure 1 depicts a soldier departing to war, with a strong mother figure remaining and replacing the soldier on his tractor and work. India British, Nazi and Indian propaganda was present in India during the Second World War. British propaganda During the Second World War, the British government engaged in censorship and propaganda strategies that aimed to maintain the status quo of British Raj. Deslite the objections of Indian nationalists and the consequences of the war like famine, British propaganda aimed to absolve the blame placed upon Britain. In 1942, “British officials suppressed 92 journals in August” through British-owned newspapers papers owned like “The Hindu” and “The Statesmen”. British propaganda intended to “repress Indian voices in public media” and “regulate social criticism generated by resistant intellectual culture”. The media also played reels glorifying Indian troops fighting against Axis powers. The INA, an Indian soldier army fighting for Indian independence with the support of the Japanese army, was censored throughout the war to maintain a “complicit” India. Indian nationalist propaganda Amongst British propaganda, Indian nationalism in the media expressed the anticolonialist criticisms of Mahatma Gandhi through nationalist reporters like the war correspondent T.G. Narayanan. Operating under the “constraints of censorship”, Narayanan became a prominent voice for Indian nationalism. His work covered the Bengal famine and expressed Ghandi's blame on the British government and the necessity of “self-governance” within the media For Indian troops, nationalist media highlighted the unfair conditions such as lower pay and status than British troops and implicated the British regime for the issues of the country. Nazi propaganda Nazi propagandists operating in India distorted ideologies of nationalism to loosen the grip of British colonialism over India. Mein Kampf was translated into Indian languages, and Indian presses were bribed to translate and print Hitler's speeches. Anti-Jewish sentimentalities were aimed towards Muslims to garner Nazi sympathy. One Indian press, Princely India, stated on the