Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations
Publisher's Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section I: Theoretical Articulation of Nonviolence
1: The Kingdom of God Is Within You (excerpt) by Leo Tolstoy
2: Civil Disobedience by H.D. Thoreau
3: The Creed of Nonviolence by Mahatma Gandhi
Section II: Nonviolence as Political Strategy
4: The Vision of Nonviolence by Bhikhu Parekh
5: Conceptualizing Nonviolence: Gandhi and King Dialogue by Bidyut Chakrabarty
6: Nonviolent Liberation by Dustin Ells Howes
7: Non-cooperation and Political Ju-jitsu by Gene Sharp
8: Gandhi's Integrity: The Philosophy behind the Politics by Akeel Bilgrami
Section III: Nonviolence in Contemporary Political Movements
9: Gandhian Activism in India after Independence: The Bhoodan and Gramdan by David Hardiman
10: The Muslim Pashtun Movement of the North-West Frontier of India, 1930-34 by Mohammad Raqib
11: The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya by Ramachandra Guha
12: Jayprakash Narayan: From Gramdan to Sampoorna Karanti by Partha Nath Mukherji
13: The Story of Narmada Bachao Andolan: Human Rights in the Global Economy and the Struggle Against the World Bank by Smita Narula
14: The Women of Chipko by Vandana Shiva
15: The Anna Hazare Movement against Corruption by Vinay Sitapati
16: Non-violent Resistance in Iran, 2009-11 by Bernd Kaussler
Selected Bibliography
About the Editor and Contributors
Index

About the Author

Bidyut Chakrabarty is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi.