The Impossible Indian (Inbunden)
avFaisal Devji
ISBN: 9780674066724 - UTGIVEN: 2012-09The Impossible Indian offers a rare, fresh view of Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursuit of a global vision that went far beyond a nationalist agenda. Revising the conventional view of the Mahatma as an isolated Indian moralist detached fr[...]
Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (Inbunden)
avFaisal Devji
ISBN: 9780674072671 - UTGIVEN: 2013-09Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India s Muslims was proposed, is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in the eyes of many observers, a failed state. "Muslim Zion" cuts to the core of the geopolitical paradoxes entangling Pakistan to argue that India s ri[...]
The Impossible Indian (Inbunden)
avFaisal Devji
ISBN: 9781849041157 - UTGIVEN: 2012-06While in his own time Gandhi was recognised by friends and enemies alike as a major political force, not only in India but the world at large, in our own day the Mahatma has been reduced to an idealist by his supporters as much as by his detractors. Whether this idealism is regarded as sincere or hy[...]
The Terrorist in Search of Humanity (Häftad)
avFaisal Devji
ISBN: 9781850659464 - UTGIVEN: 200810Faisal Devji argues that new forms of militancy, such as the actions of al-Qaeda, are informed by the same desire for agency and equality that animates other humanitarian interventions, such as environmentalism and pacifism. To the militant, victimized Muslims are more than just symbols of ethnic an[...]
