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Political Violence in Ancient India / Upinder Singh.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (540 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674975279
  • 9780674981270
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.60934 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Summary: Gandhi and Nehru helped create a myth of nonviolence in ancient India that obscures a troubled, complex heritage: a long struggle to reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the need to use violence to rule. Upinder Singh documents the tension between violence and nonviolence in ancient Indian political thought and practice, 600 BCE to 600 CE.
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Gandhi and Nehru helped create a myth of nonviolence in ancient India that obscures a troubled, complex heritage: a long struggle to reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the need to use violence to rule. Upinder Singh documents the tension between violence and nonviolence in ancient Indian political thought and practice, 600 BCE to 600 CE.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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