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.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000 | Brill's Indological Library ; 16Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (408 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- Violence, Non-Violence and the Rationalization of Violence in South Asian Cultural History
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- HN690.Z9
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Jan E.M. Houben and Karel R. van Kooij -- Preface / Jan E.M. Houben and Karel R. van Kooij -- 1. Introduction: Violence, Non-Violence and the Rationalization of Violence in South Asian Cultural History / Jan E.M. Houben and Karel R. van Kooij -- 2. Hindu Ahiṁsā and its Roots / Henk W. Bodewitz -- 3. Aspects of the Buddhist Attitude Towards War / Lambert Schmithausen -- 4. Raṇayajña: The Mahābhārata War as a Sacrifice / Danielle Feller Jatavallabhula -- 5. To Kill or not to Kill the Sacrificial Animal ( Yajña-Paśu )? Arguments and Perspectives in Brahminical Ethical Philosophy / Jan E.M. Houben -- 6. Jainism as the Religion of Non-Violence / Robert J. Zydenbos -- 7. Construction Sacrifice in India, “Seen from the East” / Roy E. Jordaan and Robert J. Wessing -- 8. Iconography of the Battlefield: The case of Chinnamastā / Karel R. van Kooij -- 9. Expressions of Violence in Buddhist Tantric Mantras / Pieter C. Verhagen -- 10. The Embarrassment of Political Violence in Europe and South Asia, c. 1100–1800 / Jos Gommans -- 11. Nationalism and Violence in Colonial India: 1880–1910 / Victor A. van Bijlert -- 12. Violent Heroines: Ajñeya and Violence—Revisited / Theo Damsteegt -- Index / Jan E.M. Houben and Karel R. van Kooij -- List of Contributors / Jan E.M. Houben and Karel R. van Kooij -- List of Plates / Jan E.M. Houben and Karel R. van Kooij -- Plates I–VII / Jan E.M. Houben and Karel R. van Kooij.
In the course of millennia of dealing with problems of violence, South Asia has not only elaborated the ideal of total avoidance of violence in a unique manner, it also developed arguments justifying and rationalizing its employment under certain circumstances. Some of these arguments seemingly transform all sorts of ‘violence’ into ‘non-violence’. Historical and cultural aspects of the tensions between violence and its denial and rationalization in South Asia are taken up in the contributions of this volume which deal with topics ranging from the origins of the concept of ahiṃsā , to the iconography and interpretation of a self-beheading goddess, and violent heroines in Ajñeya’s Hindi short stories.
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