Political thought in action : the Bhagavad Gita and modern India / edited by Shruti Kapila, Faisal Devji.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kapila, Shruti, editor.

Devji, Faisal, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bhagavadgītā--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bhagavadgītā.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 205 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Bhagavad Gita's philosophical and political significance remains forever contemporary. In this volume a group of leading historians reflect on the significance of the Bhagavad Gita for political and ethical thinking in modern India and beyond. These essays contribute new perspectives to historical, contemporary and global political ideas. Violence and nonviolence, war, sacrifice, justice, fraternity and political community were constitutive of India's political modernity, and it was to these questions that Indian public figures turned their attention in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Oriented towards the future, these commentaries and interpretations of a text that locates war as the central problem of human life have detached the Gita from antiquity and made it foundational for India's modernity. The book would be of interest to academic researchers as well as general readers interested in South Asian history, Indian philosophy and religion.

Contents:

India, the Bhagavad Gita and the world

The transnational Gita

The transfiguration of duty in Aurobindo's essays on the Gita

Gandhi's Gita and politics as such

Gandhi on democracy, politics and the ethics of everyday life

Morality in the shadow of politics

Ambedkar's inheritances

Rethinking knowledge with action : V.D. Savarkar, the Bhagavad Gita and histories of warfare

A history of violence.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-07020-1

1-107-05491-5

1-107-05828-7

1-107-05958-5

1-107-05600-4

1-139-52401-1

OCLC:

875212957