ABSTRACT This paper examines V.D. Savarkar’s interpretation of the place of violence within his larger arguments about civility as a way to rethink the murder of M.K. Gandhi – the Mahatma. Savarkar’s seminal work on Hindutva transformed political debate in the twentieth century by rethinking the categories of ‘Hindu’ and ‘Hindusthan.’ His contributions to the debates on civility provided an important insight: that is, violence was central to the understanding of what he calls Hindu civility – and by extension Hindu civilization. For him, to marginalize the centrality of violence was to not only overlook the basic foundation of civility, but it was to ignore the foundation of what it meant to be a Hindu. It was a radical statement of inscribing violence as central to the episteme of Hindu thought. This paper argues that Savarkar’s interpretation of political assassination was a key component of his conceptualization of violence as an ethical mode of conduct. It further examines Savarkar’s writings on the need for political assassinations against those individuals who promoted ‘excessive non-violence.’

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暴力作为文明：萨尔卡（VD Savarkar）和圣雄被暗杀

摘要本文在VD Savarkar关于文明的更大论点中考察了VD Savarkar对暴力发生地点的解释，以此作为重新思考谋杀MK Gandhi（圣雄）的一种方式。萨瓦卡（Savarkar）在印度教徒（Hindutva）上的开创性著作通过重新思考“印度教”和“印度教”的类别，改变了20世纪的政治辩论。他在关于文明的辩论中的贡献提供了重要的见解：也就是说，暴力对于理解他所谓的印度文明以及扩展印度文明至关重要。对他而言，边缘化暴力的中心地位不仅是在忽略文明的基本基础，而且是在忽略印度教徒的基础。这是激进的声明，认为暴力是印度教思想认识的核心。本文认为，萨瓦卡对政治暗杀的解释是他将暴力概念化为一种道德行为模式的关键组成部分。它进一步研究了萨瓦卡（Savarkar）关于对那些提倡“过度非暴力”个人进行政治暗杀的必要性的著作。