Political Violence in Ancient India

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.

About the author

Upinder Singh is Professor of History at Ashoka University, India.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Upinder Singh, Singh Upinder
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780674975279
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97527-9
• No. of pages: 616
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Asia, HISTORY / Ancient / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, India, Political science & theory, Asian History, Violence in society, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Black & Asian Studies, HISTORY / Asia / South / General