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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674068100
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.03/5092 23
LOC classification:
  • DS481.G3 D4465 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: Summary: 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.
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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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