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The idea of non-violence was critical to Gandhi s worldview. He used for it the Sanskrit term ahimsa , arguing that it was more comprehensive and capacious than non-violence . In his powerful new analysis of violence and non-violence as seen through the Gandhian prism, Jyotirmaya Sharma argues that Gandhi acknowledged the absence of any serious tradition of non-violence in India. His uncompromising insistence on ahimsa, then, was a way of introducing non-violence as an Indian value by fabricating a tradition around it. Gandhi offered a unique interpretation of Hindu texts and philosophical practice while engaging with certain strands of European and American intellectual traditions.
Sharma maintains that past attempts to understand Gandhian non-violence remain inadequate because of the tendency to measure it on the yardstick of efficacy, in specific situations, in Gandhi s own lifetime. More significantly, and perhaps controversially, he suggests that Gandhi s formulation of ahimsa fails both as concept and practice, largely because of its location within the religious realm.
Sharma maintains that past attempts to understand Gandhian non-violence remain inadequate because of the tendency to measure it on the yardstick of efficacy, in specific situations, in Gandhi s own lifetime. More significantly, and perhaps controversially, he suggests that Gandhi s formulation of ahimsa fails both as concept and practice, largely because of its location within the religious realm.
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