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Violence/non-violence : some Hindu perspectives / edited by Denis Vidal, Gilles Tarabout, Eric Meyer.
Van Pelt Library HN690.Z9 V57813 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Violences et non-violences en Inde. English.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--India.
- Violence.
- India.
- Nonviolence.
- Physical Description:
- 328 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Manohar, 2003.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- Contributed articles.
- Contents:
- On the concepts of violence and non-violence in Hinduism and Indian society / Denis Vidal, Gilles Tarabout, and Éric Meyer
- The violence of the non-violence, or ascetics in combat / Véronique Bouillier
- On the rhetoric of violence / Boris Oguibénine
- Ancient Brahminism, or impossible non-violence / Madeleleine Biardeau
- The violences of a Hindu village, the suicide of a young woman : "legitimate violence" and dominant castes in Central India / Jean-Luc Chambard
- The initiation of Devi : violence and non-violence in a Vaishnavite tale / Catherine Clémentin-Ojha
- The so-called "criminal tribes" of Bristish India : colonial violence and traditional violence / Marie Fourcade
- Non-violence in the century of violence : lessons from the Dhanbad mining belt / Gérard Heuze
- Remarks on dissuasion in ancient India / Charles Malamoud
- Magical violence and non-violence : witchcraft in Kerala / Gilles Tarabout
- The end of a feud / Denis Vidal
- Community and violence in contemporary Punjab / Veena Das and R. Singh Bajwa
- Opposing Gandhi : Hindu nationalism and political violence / Christophe Jaffrelot.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Originally published: Paris : EHESS, 1994.
- ISBN:
- 8173044716
- OCLC:
- 53471476
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