Political Violence in Ancient India

Gandhi and Nehru helped create a picture of nonviolence in ancient India that obscures a troubled, complex heritage.

A long struggle to reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the need to use violence to rule.

Upinder Singh documents the tension between violence and nonviolence in ancient Indian political thought and practice, 600 BCE to 600 CE through Political Violence in Ancient India.

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