Description
About the Author
David Hardiman is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick. He lived and worked in India for many years, and is a founding member of the Subaltern Studies group. He has written extensively on the history of the Indian nationalist movement, Gandhi, and Indian social history.
Reviews
'Hardiman looks at the tangled web around the idea of ahimsaor non-violence both as a religious creed and its crossing over to the political domain at a time when organised mass mobilisation had just begun in India.'
'Hardiman demolishes the myth that Gandhian nonviolence succeeded in India because the colonial state observed the law. . . . This is a book every university should have in its library.'
'Provides new insights into India's nationalist struggle during the first two decades of the 20th century . . . this book is required reading for those who wish to understand not only the central role Gandhi played in the Indian nationalist struggle but also the cooperation and contestation required of mass movements involving different social groups.'
'Hardiman locates Gandhi in the little-known history of earlier Indian experiments with nonviolence, showing nonviolent resistance to be both creative and problematic, ambiguous and difficult, depending on the contexts in which it was practiced. A refreshing and illuminating approach.' -- Judith M. Brown
'Hardiman brings his fierce capacity for scholarly focus to the formative period of India's freedom struggle. A vital and illuminating study of building strategy and a mass base, the honing of the practices of resistance, and the construction of a whole philosophy that has come to be called "nonviolence".' -- Akeel Bilgrami
'An excellent contribution to the literature on nonviolent resistance.' -- April Carter
'A valuable contribution to our understanding of the contested nature of nonviolence in India before the better-known Salt March. An important read for anyone who is interested in putting civil resistance in its historical context.' -- Erica Chenoweth
Book Information
ISBN 9781849049702
Author David Hardiman
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Publisher C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd