This chapter examines the nonviolent projects of ‘Pride of the Afghans’ Indian independence activist Bacha Khan. It engages both with his personal and institutional praxis within their Pashtun cultural context and with the historiographical challenges posed both by his suppression by the state and his proximity to Mahatma Gandhi.

This chapter explores the nonviolence of Senegalese Sufi Amadou Bamba in terms of its critiques of racism and political domination, its pedagogy of productive service, and the relationship between spiritual hierarchy and its apparent ambivalence between absolute nonviolence and defensive warfare.

Introduces the Volume

Concludes the volume and draws the essays together

This essay analyzes the ambivalence of the reception of the Homeric epics in anti- and postcolonial literatures. The postcolonial reception of the Odyssey can be charted between two poles: the colonizer’s Odyssey, in which works write back to the figure of Odysseus as colonizer, and Odysseus as dispossessed refugee whose wanderings reflect the condition of the wretched of the earth. While the Iliad has been less salient for postcolonial literatures, some notable receptions focus on Helen and on Priam’s back story.