The Impossible Indian : Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence / Faisal Devji.
Devji, Faisal, author.
2012
DS481.G3 D4465 2012eb
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Title The Impossible Indian : Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence / Faisal Devji.
Author Devji, Faisal, author.
ISBN 9780674068100
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674068100
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (190 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674068100 doi
Call Number DS481.G3 D4465 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 954.03/5092
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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System Details Note Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
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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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