Violence/Non-Violence: Some Hindu Perspectives

by Giles Tarabout, Denis Vidal (Editor), Eric Meyer (Editor)

This book examines the concepts of violence and non-violence in Hinduism. There are many aspects of Indian society and culture which effectively contradict ideas, often taken for granted since Gandhi, about the role of violence in it. In reality, how the concepts of violence and non-violence are defined in different aspects of the Hindu tradition cannot be understood if they are dissociated from each other. Rather, as the articles in this volume show, violence very frequently legitimates itself in the name of non-violence as well.

328 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003