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The impossible Indian : Gandhi and the temptation of violence / Faisal Devji.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Devji, Faisal.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948--Philosophy.
- Gandhi.
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948--Political and social views.
- Statesmen--India--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- India--History--Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858--Influence.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-07063-1
- 0-674-06810-6
- OCLC:
- 811563009
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