Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence

by Faisal Devji

The Impossible Indian offers a rare, fresh view of Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursuit of a global vision that went far beyond a nationalist agenda. Revising the conventional view of the Mahatma as an isolated Indian moralist detached from the mainstream of twentieth-century politics, Faisal Devji offers a provocative new genealogy of Gandhian thought, one that is not rooted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674066723
• ISBN13: 9780674066724
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"