Impossible Indian Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence

Name: Impossible Indian Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence
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ISBN: 9780674066724

ISBN-10: 0674066723

ISBN-13: 9780674066724

Edition: 2012

Authors: Faisal Devji

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The Impossible Indian offers a rare, fresh view of Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursuit of a global vision that went far beyond a nationalist agenda. Revising the conventional view of the Mahatma as an isolated Indian moralist detached from the mainstream of twentieth-century politics, Faisal Devji offers a provocative new genealogy of Gandhian thought, one that is not rooted in a clichéd alternative history of spiritual India but arises from a tradition of conquest and violence in the battlefields of 1857.Focusing on his unsentimental engagement with the hard facts of imperial domination, Fascism, and civil war, Devji recasts…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/20/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Faisal Devji is Reader in Indian History and Fellow of St Antonyï¿½e(tm)s College at the University of Oxford.



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Bastard History



A Nation Misplaced



In Praise of Prejudice



Brothers in Arms



Hitler's Conversion



Leaving India to Anarchy


Conclusion


Notes


Index