Political Violence in Ancient India
Nonfiction, History, Asian, India, Ancient History, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
| Author: | Upinder Singh | ISBN: | 9780674981287 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Publication: | September 25, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Upinder Singh |
| ISBN: | 9780674981287 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication: | September 25, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
