Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 India, the Bhagavad Gita and the World
- 2 The Transnational Gita
- 3 The Transfiguration of Duty in Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita
- 4 Gandhi's Gita and Politics as Such
- 5 Gandhi on Democracy, Politics and the Ethics of Everyday Life
- 6 Morality in the Shadow of Politics
- 7 Ambedkar's Inheritances
- 8 Rethinking Knowledge with Action: V. D. Savarkar, the Bhagavad Gita and Histories of Warfare
- 9 A History of Violence
- Index
List of Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 India, the Bhagavad Gita and the World
- 2 The Transnational Gita
- 3 The Transfiguration of Duty in Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita
- 4 Gandhi's Gita and Politics as Such
- 5 Gandhi on Democracy, Politics and the Ethics of Everyday Life
- 6 Morality in the Shadow of Politics
- 7 Ambedkar's Inheritances
- 8 Rethinking Knowledge with Action: V. D. Savarkar, the Bhagavad Gita and Histories of Warfare
- 9 A History of Violence
- Index
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- Political Thought in ActionThe Bhagavad Gita and Modern India, pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013