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Political Violence in Ancient India
Inbunden, 2017
523 kr
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Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru helped create the myth of a nonviolent ancient India while building a modern independence movement on the principle of nonviolence (ahimsa). But this myth obscures a troubled and complex heritage: a long struggle to reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the …
The World of India's First Archaeologist
Letters from Alexander Cunningham to JDM Beglar
Inbunden, 2021
1197 kr
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Alexander Cunningham, India's first professional archaeologist, became the first Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India in 1871. This volume contains a collection of 193 letters he wrote between 1871 and 1888 to his Archaeological Assistant, J. D. M. Beglar. The letters, published …
Ancient India
Culture of Contradictions
Inbunden, 2021
532 kr
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Upinder Singh urges us to abandon simplistic stereotypes and instead think of ancient India in terms of the coexistence of five powerful contradictions-between social inequality and promises of universal salvation, the valorization of desire and detachment, goddess worship and misogyny, violence …
Buddhism in Asia
Revival and Reinvention
Av Nayanjot Lahiri, Upinder Singh
Häftad, 2018
343 kr
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The birth of Buddhism goes back to the sixth century BCE and, over the centuries, there has been considerable variety as well as considerable change in its doctrines, practices and propagation across the different parts of Asia. This volume showcases the expansion in the religion's contours and …
