The Impossible Indian

Devji, Faisal:
The Impossible Indian : Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence / Faisal Devji. - London : Hurst, 2012. - XI, 213 S.
ISBN 978-1-8490-4115-7 (Hardback)
£ 16,99
US-amerikanische Ausgabe: Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 2012. - ISBN 978-0-674-06672-4 , US$ 24,95
DDC: 954.035092

Beschreibung
This book is about the Mahatma as a political thinker, one who recognised how the quotidian reality of modern life could be radicalised to produce the most extraordinary effects. In this sense he belongs with Lenin, Hitler and Mao as one of the great revolutionary figures of our times, though his politics was directed along paths other than state-building.
   Focusing on his unsentimental engagement with the hard facts of imperial domination, fascism and civil war, The Impossible Indian places Gandhi at the centre of modern history, exploring the new political reality he claimed to have discovered. This was a politics the Mahatma mobilised in practices that required as much sacrifice, and even death, as those propagated by his revolutionary peers, if for very different reasons.
   Faisal Devji's book reveals Gandhi as the hard-hitting political thinker he was, someone willing to countenance violence to achieve his objectives, and challenges the idealistic portrayals of the Mahatma that prevail even today. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgements. vii
Introduction. 1
1. Bastard History. 9
2. A Nation Misplaced. 41
3. In Praise of Prejudice. 67
4. Brothers in Arms. 93
5. Hitler's Conversion. 119
6. Leaving India to Anarchy. 151
Conclusion. 185
Notes. 193
Index. 207

Autor
FAISAL DEVJI is Reader in History at St Antony's College, Oxford University. He is the author of two acclaimed books, Landscapes of the Jihad and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity, both of which are published by Hurst. Profile page.

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