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Violence/Non-Violence: Some Hindu Perspectives
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Manohar
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Denis Vidal, Gilles Tarabout, Eric Meyer
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English
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Hardback
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Manohar
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Denis Vidal, Gilles Tarabout, Eric Meyer
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This book examines the concepts of violence and non-violence in Hinduism. There are many aspects of Indian society and culture which effectively contradict ideas, often taken for granted since Gandhi, about the role of violence in it. In reality, how the concepts of violence and non-violence are defined in different aspects of the Hindu tradition cannot be understood if they are dissociated from each other. Rather, as the articles in this volume show, violence very frequently legitimates itself in the name of non-violence as well.
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This book examines the concepts of violence and non-violence in Hinduism. There are many aspects of Indian society and culture which effectively contradict ideas, often taken for granted since Gandhi, about the role of violence in it. In reality, how the concepts of violence and non-violence are defined in different aspects of the Hindu tradition cannot be understood if they are dissociated from each other. Rather, as the articles in this volume show, violence very frequently legitimates itself in the name of non-violence as well.
About Author
Denis Vidal, Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, is currently working and teaching about the visual anthropology of South Asia. He is the author of Violence and Truth: A Rajasthani Kingdom Confronts Colonial Authority (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997) and he has co-edited two other volumes in India: in collaboration with Philippe Cadene: Webs of Trade: Dynamics of Business Communities in Western India (Delhi: Manohar, 1997): in collaboration with E. Tarlo and V. Dupont: Delhi, Urban Space and Human Destinies (Delhi: Manohar, 2). He is a research fellow at the Institute for Research in Development (IRD) and a member of the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies.
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