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Faisal Devji
Impossible Indian [PDF ebook]
Gandhi and the temptation of violence

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This is a rare view of Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursuit of a global vision that went beyond a nationalist agenda. Guided by his idea of ethical duty as the source of the self’s sovereignty, he understood how life’s quotidian reality could be revolutionized to extraordinary effect.

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Formatera PDF ● Sidor 190 ● ISBN 9780674068100 ● Utgivare Harvard University Press ● Publicerad 2012 ● Nedladdningsbara 3 gånger ● Valuta EUR ● ID 2584571 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM

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