Political Violence in Ancient India

Political Violence in Ancient India
ISBN-10
0674981286
ISBN-13
9780674981287
Category
History
Pages
540
Language
English
Published
2017-09-25
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Upinder Singh

Description

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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