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Enlightenment and Violence: Modernity and Nation-Making in India,Turkey and Iran

by Tadd Graham Fernee
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788126938735
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
  • Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 406
  • Original Price: INR 1495.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 560 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Political Process / General

Enlightenment and Violence is a history of ideas that proposes a multi-centred and non-Eurocentric interpretation of the Enlightenment as a human heritage. This comparative study reconstructs how modernity was negotiated in different intellectual and political contexts as a national discourse within the broader heritage of Enlightenment. The author has compared 16th and 20th century Indian history to the early modern histories of Persia, Turkey and Western Europe in order to ground analysis of their 20th century nation-making experiences within a common problematic. The focus is upon an ethic of reconciliation over totalizing projects as a means to create non-violent conflict resolution in the modern context. It is suggested that an emergent ethic of reconciliation in nation-making—inspired by the Indian paradigm—harbours the potential to create more democratic and open societies, in rejection of the authoritarian patterns that too frequently shaped the experiences of the 20th century.

Tadd Graham Fernée is currently a Lecturer in the Law-Languages Department of Tours University, teaching political science, research methodology, the history of institutions and international relations. The author completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in the year 2009–20

  • Acknowledgements vii
  • Introduction ix
  • 1. Akbar’s “Universal Peace” (Sulh-i Kul): Relevance to the Enlightenment 1
  • 2. The European Enlightenment: Between Revenge and Reconciliation 52
  • 3. Early Indian Nationalism: Between Liberty and Authenticity 106
  • 4. The Indian National Movement and Gandhi: The Ethic of Reconciliation as Mass Movement 147
  • 5. The Ottoman–Turkish Experience of the Enlightenment: Mass Movement and Programme 196
  • 6. The Heritage of Non-violence in the Nehru Period: The Ethic of Reconciliation in Nation-Making 244
  • 7. Iranian Enlightenment: Struggle for Multi-Cultural
  • Democracy and Its Demise 270
  • Conclusion 340
  • Bibliography 364
  • Index 378
  • About the Author 386

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