Violence/Non-Violence: Some Hindu Perspectives

Ascetics with elaborate martial traditions reveal how Hindu concepts of violence and non-violence intertwine, challenging simplistic understandings.

How do we understand those ascetics who have developed an extremely elaborate martial tradition and yet have taken strict vows of non-violence, especially when, for some ascetics today, that tradition has been put at the service of the most extreme forms of Hindu militancy? And how is that tough union leaders can, with conviction, share the same...