Violence/Non-Violence

Denis Vidal, Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, is currently working and teaching about the visual anthropology of South Asia. He is the author of Violence and Truth: A Rajasthani Kingdom Confronts Colonial Authority (1997) and he has co-edited two other volumes in India: in collaboration with Philippe Cadene: Webs of Trade: Dynamics of Business Communities in Western India (1997); in collaboration with E. Tarlo and V. Dupont: Delhi: Urban?Space?and?Human?Destinies?(2000). Gilles Tarabout, Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, has specialised in the study of Kerala's society and popular religious practices. Apart from his own publications in the field, he has co-edited volumes bearing on various themes: Islam and Christianity in India, Religious Possession in South Asia, Conceptions of the Body in Hinduism. Eric Meyer, has focused in works on the interaction between colonial capitalism and rural society in South Asia with particular reference to peasants, planters and the State in modern Sri Lanka. He is the author of Sri Lanka. Entre particularismes et mondialisation (2001).

On the Concepts of Violence & Non-Violence in Hinduism & Indian Society; The Violence of the Non-Violent, or Ascetics in Combat; On the Rhetoric of Violence; Ancient Brahminism, or Impossible Non-Violence; The Violences of a Hindu Village. The Suicide of a Young Woman: Legitimate Violence & Dominant Castes in Central India; The Initiation of Devi: Violence & Non-Violence in a Vaishnavite Tale; The So-called 'Criminal Tribes' of British India: Colonial Violence & Traditional Violence; Non-Violence in the Country of Violence: Lessons from the Dhanbad Mining Belt; Remarks on Dissuasion in Ancient India; Magical Violence & Non-Violence: Witchcraft in Kerala; The End of a Feud; Community & Violence in Contemporary Punjab; Opposing Gandhi: Hindu Nationalism & Political Violence; Index.