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Violence denied : violence, non-violence and the rationalization of violence in South Asian cultural history

Title
Violence denied : violence, non-violence and the rationalization of violence in South Asian cultural history / edited by Jan E.M. Houben and Karel R. Van Kooij.
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Houben, Jan E. M., 1960-
  • Kooij, K. R. van.
Description
ix, 384 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.
Series Statement
Brill's Indological library, 0925-2916 ; v. 16
Uniform Title
Brill's Indological library ; v. 16.
Subject
  • Violence > South Asia > History
  • Political violence > South Asia > History
  • Terrorism > South Asia > History
  • Violence > Religious aspects
  • Political violence
  • Terrorism
  • Violence
  • Geschichte
  • Gewalt
  • Gewaltlosigkeit
  • Kultur
  • Religion
  • Verurteilung
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Cultuurgeschiedenis
  • Geweld
  • Violence > Religious aspects > History. > South Asia
  • Nonviolence > South Asia > History
  • South Asia
  • Südasien
  • South Asia > Civilization
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Hindu ahiṁsā and its roots / Henk W. Bodewitz -- Aspects of the Buddhist attitude towards war / Lambert L. Schmithausen -- Raṇayajña: the Mahābhārata War as a sacrifice / Danielle Feller Jatavallabhula -- To kill or not to kill the sacrificial animal (yajña-paśu)? arguments and perspectives in Brahminical ethical philosophy / Jan E.M. Houben -- Jainism as the religion of non-violence / Robert J. Zydenbos -- Construction sacrifice in India, "seen from the east" / Roy E. Jordaan and Robert J. Wessing -- Iconography of the battlefield: the case of Chinnamastā / Karel R. van Kooij -- Expressions of violence in Buddhist Tantric mantras / Pieter C. Verhagen -- The embarrassment of political violence in Europe and South Asia, c. 1100-1800 / Jos Gommans -- Nationalism and violence in colonial India: 1880-1910 / Victor A. van Bijlert -- Violent heroines: Ajñeya and violence / Theo Damsteegt.
ISBN
  • 9004113444
  • 9789004113442
LCCN
99029169
OCLC
  • ocm41256328
  • 41256328
  • SCSB-9660088
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library