# Jyotirmaya Sharma

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Books & Authors with Jyotirmaya Sharma, author of Elusive Non-Violence; The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi's Religion of Ahimsa

Gandhi's introduction of non-violence as an Indian value by fabricating a tradition around it, his radical interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita, his exhortation to the Jews facing Hitler... Jyotirmaya Sharma, author, Elusive Non-Violence; The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi's Religion of Ahimsa talks …

What we don't understand about Gandhi's non-violence, with Jyotirmaya Sharma

Mahatma Gandhi is known around the world as the apostle of non-violence, but what did his insistence on ahimsa actually mean for him? In this episode, Sandip talks to Jyotirmaya Sharma, professor of political science at the University of Hyderabad, about his new book – Elusive Nonviolence: The Maki…

Jyotirmaya Sharma, "Elusive Nonviolence: The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi’s Religion of Ahimsa" (Westland, 2021)

In Elusive Nonviolence: The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi’s Religion of Ahimsa (Westland, 2021), 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 a…

Jyotirmaya Sharma, "Elusive Nonviolence: The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi’s Religion of Ahimsa" (Westland, 2021)

In Elusive Nonviolence: The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi’s Religion of Ahimsa (Westland, 2021), 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 a…

Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India

Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India Jyotirmaya Sharma (University of Hyderabad) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 16 May 2022. For queries, please contact seminar convenors at saih@history Hasyarnava or The Ocean of Mirth, a medieva…

What the emphasis on non-violence actually meant to Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi is known around the world as the apostle of non-violence, but what did his insistence on ahimsa actually mean for him? On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, we are deviating from our usual programming and revisiting a conversation that was originally featured on The Sandip Roy Show. In …

#183: Political Theory, Hindutva, Indian Nationalism & Philosophy ft. Jyotirmaya Sharma

What is nationalism? How did the modern idea of India emerge? What is Hindutva and Hindu nationalism, and how does it differ from Indian nationalism? In this episode of Know Time, scholar Jyotirmaya Sharma explores the history of political ideas that have shaped modern India. The conversation exam…