The Impossible Indian : : Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence / / Faisal Devji.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Devji, Faisal,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1 BASTARD HISTORY --; 2 A NATION MISPLACED --; 3 IN PRAISE OF PREJUDICE --; 4 BROTHERS IN ARMS --; 5 HITLER’S CONVERSION --; 6 LEAVING INDIA TO ANARCHY --; CONCLUSION --; NOTES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674068100; 9783110649772; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674068100
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Faisal Devji.

This is a rare view of Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursuit of a global vision that went beyond a nationalist agenda. Guided by his idea of ethical duty as the source of the self’s sovereignty, he understood how life’s "idian reality could be revolutionized to extraordinary effect.