Violence Denied : : Violence, Non-Violence and the Rationalization of Violence in South Asian Cultural History.

• Superior document: Brill's Indological Library ; v.16
• Author: Houben, Jan.
• TeilnehmendeR: van Kooij, Karel.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1999.; ©1999.
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Indological Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: violence, non-violence and the rationalization of violence in South Asian cultural history -- 2. Hindu ahiṁsā and its roots -- 3. Aspects of the Buddhist attitude towards war -- 4. Raṇayajña: the Mahābhārata War as a Sacrifice -- 5. To kill or not to kill the sacrificial animal (yajña-paśu)? Arguments and perspectives in Brahminical ethical philosophy -- 6. Jainism as the religion of non-violence -- 7. Construction sacrifice in India, "seen from the east" -- 8. Iconography of the battlefield: the case of Chinnamastā -- 9. Expressions of violence in Buddhist Tantric mantras -- 10. The embarrassment of political violence in Europe and South Asia, c. 1100-1800 -- 11. Nationalism and violence in colonial India: 1880-1910 -- 12. Violent heroines: Ajñeya and violence -- Index -- List of Contributors -- List of Plates and Acknowledgements -- Plates.