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Voices Of Dissent An Essay Romila Thapar

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Publisher: Seagull Books

File Extension: PDF

File size: 16.48 MB

Pages: 172

Author: Romila Thapar

ISBN: 9780857428622, 0857428624

Language: English

Year: 2021

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Voices Of Dissent An Essay Romila Thapar by Romila Thapar 9780857428622, 0857428624 instant download after payment.

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: AnEssay, Thapar looks at the articulation of nonviolent dissent and relates it to various pivotal moments throughout India's 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 Shramanas--the 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 Gandhi's satyagraha. Then Thapar places in context the recent peaceful protests against India's 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.
Written by one of India's best-known public intellectuals, Voices of Dissent will be essential reading not for anyone interested in India's fascinating history, but also the direction in which the nation is headed.