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Voices of Dissent An Essay

Romila Thapar

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  • 254 sidor
  • 2023
Written by one of Indias best-known public intellectuals, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in Indias fascinating history as well as the direction in which the nation is headed. People have argued since time immemorial. Disagreement is a part of life, of human experience. But we now live in times when any form of protest in India is marked as anti-Indian and met with arguments that the very concept of dissent was imported into India from the West. As Romila Thapar explores in her timely historical essay, however, dissent has a long history in the subcontinent, even if its forms have evolved through the centuries. In Voices of Dissent: An Essay, Thapar looks at the articulation of nonviolent dissent and relates it to various pivotal moments throughout Indias history. Beginning with Vedic times, she takes us from the second to the first millennium BCE, to the emergence of groups that were jointly called the Shramanasthe Jainas, Buddhists, and Ajivikas. Going forward in time, she also explores the views of the Bhakti sants and others of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and brings us to a major moment of dissent that helped to establish a free and democratic India: Mahatma Gandhis satyagraha. Then Thapar places in context the recent peaceful protests against Indias new, controversial citizenship law, maintaining that dissent in our time must be opposed to injustice and supportive of democratic rights so that society may change for the better.
  • Författare: Romila Thapar
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781803092706
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 254
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-12-06
  • Förlag: Seagull Books London Ltd