Violence Denied : Violence, Non-Violence and the Rationalization of Violence in South Asian Cultural History by Karel R. van Kooij

In the course of millennia of dealing with problems of violence, South Asia has not only elaborated the ideal of total avoidance of violence in a unique manner, it also developed arguments justifying and rationalizing its employment under certain circumstances. Some of these arguments seemingly transform all sorts of `violence' into `nonviolence'.
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