Joan Valerie Bondurant (December 18, 1918 – September 12, 2006) was an American political scientist and former spy for theOffice of Strategic Services (OSS) duringWorld War II.[1] She is best known as the author ofConquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict (1958), a book onGandhian political philosophy.
While in India, she metMahatma Gandhi, and became interested in hisnonviolent approach to politics. Returning to the US, Bondurant obtained a doctoral degree in political science at theUniversity of California, Berkeley (1952).[4] She then publishedConquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict (1958), a widely reviewed and influential book on Gandhian politics.[5][6][7]
Her collection of personal and research papers was given to the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation of River Campus Libraries at the University of Rochester in 2012 and was opened to researchers in 2015.[8]
Bondurant, Joan V. (1988).Conquest of violence: the Gandhian philosophy of conflict (New Revised ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.ISBN9780691022819.OCLC17385168.
Bondurant, Joan V. (1958).Conquest of violence: the Gandhian philosophy of conflict (1st ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.OCLC154176074.
Fisher, Margaret Welpley; Joan V. Bondurant (1956).The Indian experience with democratic elections. Berkeley, CA: University of California.OCLC989639.
Fisher, Margaret Welpley; Joan V. Bondurant (1956).Indian approaches to a socialist society. Berkeley, CA: Institute of International Studies, University of California.OCLC845127212.
Bondurant, Joan V. (1946).Sketches of India, with forty-one photographic illustrations. Ann Arbor, MI: Craft Press.OCLC4579134.
^Bondurant, Joan V. (1952).Gandhian satyagraha and political theory: an interpretation. Berkeley, CA: Thesis (Ph.D. in Political Science)--University of California, Berkeley).OCLC21684829.
^Anonymous (1958–1959). "Untitled [review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant]".Foreign Affairs.37: 516.
