Violence Denied : : Violence, Non-Violence and the Rationalization of Violence in South Asian Cultural History.
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| Superior document: | Brill's Indological Library ; v.16 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 1999. ©1999. |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Indological Library
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 pages) |
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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.