Nonviolence
Challenges and Prospects
Edited by Bidyut Chakrabarty
Author Information
Edited by Bidyut Chakrabarty, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi
Bidyut Chakrabarty is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi.
Contributors:
Akeel Bilgrami is Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, USA; Bidyut Chakrabarty is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India; Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was one of the most renowned proponents and practitioners of nonviolence during his leadership in India's freedom struggle; Ramachandra Guha is former Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs, London School of Economics, UK; David Hardiman is Professor, Department of History, University of Warwick, UK; Dustin Ells Howes is Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, USA; Bernd Kaussler is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, James Madison University, USA; Partha Nath Mukherjee is Former Director, Tata Institute of Social Studies, India; Smita Narula is Associate Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law, USA; Bhikhu Parekh is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Westminster, London, UK; Mohammad Raqib is a peace activist associated with The Albert Einstein Institution, USA; Vinay Sitapati is PhD scholar, Department of Politics, Princeton University, USA; Gene Sharp is Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA; Vandana Shiva is an environmental activist based in New Delhi, India; Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, and philosopher known for his argument for individual resistance to an unjust state articulated in his essay 'Civil Disobedience'; Leo Tolstoy one of the most renowned literary figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was also to leave a deep impact on twentieth century practitioners and thinkers of non-violence.
