Vidal Tarabout Meyer (6 results)

Condition: New. pp. 328.

Condition: Very Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, July 13 (SALE Item)* 286 pp., Paperback, very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hardcover. Condition: New. ISBN:9788173044717.

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents: 1. On the concepts of violence and non-violence in Hinduism and Indian society/Denis Vidal, Gilles Tarabout and Eric Meyer. 2. The violence of the non-violent, or ascetics in combat/Veronique Bouillier. 3. On the rhetoric of violence/Boris Oguibenine. 4. Ancient Brahminism, or impossible non-violence/Madeleine Biardeau. 5. The violences of a Hindu village. The suicide of a young woman: 'Legitimate violence' and dominant castes in Central India/Jean-Luc Chambard. 6. The initiation of Devi: violence and non-violence in a Vaishnavite tale/Catherine Clementin-Ojha. 7. The sol-called "Criminal tribes' of British India: colonial violence and traditional violence/Marie Fourcade. 8. Non-violence in the country of violence: lessons from the Dhanbad mining belt/Gerard Heuze. 9. Remarks on dissuasion in ancient India/Charles Malamoud. 10. Magical violence and non-violence: witchcraft in Kerala/Gilles Tarabout. 11. The end of a feud/ Denis Vidal. 12. Community and violence in contemporary Punjab/Veena Das and R. Singh Bajwa. 13. Opposing Gandhi: Hindu nationalism and political violence/Christophe Jaffrelot. Index. "How do we understand those ascetics who have developed an extremely elaborate martial tradition and yet have taken strict vows of non-violence, especially when, for some ascetics today, that tradition has been put at the service of the most extreme forms of Hindu militancy? And how is that tough union leaders can, with conviction, share the same ideas as Gandhi, or that Brahmins scarcely hesitate before using the stick, even though they loudly and insistently 328 pp.

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