The Impossible Indian : : Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence /

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Devji, Faisal,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (190 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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