Violence Denied - Violence, Non-Violence and the Rationalization of Violence in South Asian Cultural History

About the author

Jan E.M. Houben, at present working at the Kern Institute, Leiden University, obtained his Ph.D. in 1992 for a thesis on Bhartrhari's philosophy of language, and published on South Asia's philosophical and linguistic tradition as well as on Vedic ritual.
Karel R. van Kooij, Professor of South Asian Art and Material Culture, Kern Institute, Leiden University, obtained his Ph.D. in 1972 for a thesis on the Kālikāpurāṇa, and published on Buddhist and Hindu Iconography with regard to Nepal, India and Sri Lanka.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.1999
• EAN: 9789004113442
• ISBN: 978-90-04-11344-2
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 243 mm x 31 mm
• Weight: 848 g
• Series: Brill's Indological Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries