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The book is a study of the re-interpretation and relevance of the Bhagavad Gita in modern India. It argues that in the context of nationalism in the nineteenth-twentieth centuries, the intellectuals and ideologues in India turned to the Bhagavad Gita to rethink politics. Historians here discuss the approach of leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Bhimrao Ambedkar and others towards the Gita, giving it a new meaning distinctly modern and oriented tot eh future and one ...
The militant Islam represented by Al Qaeda is often described as a global movement. Apart from the geographical range of its operations and support, little else is held to define it as 'global'. Landscapes of the Jihad explores the features that Al Qaeda and other strands of militant Islam share with global movements such as environmentalists and anti-globalisation protesters.