Joan V. Bondurant

16 December 1918 – 12 September 2006

Joan Valérie Bondurant, born in Great Bend, Kansas, was an American political scientist and spy for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. She was gifted in the piano, and graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in music. When World War II broke out, she learned Japanese, and was sent to work for the OSS in India, arriving in New Delhi in May 1944. While in India, she met Mahatma Gandhi and became interested in his nonviolent approach to politics. Returning to the US, Bondurant obtained a doctoral degree in political science at the University of Califor

• Conquest of violence
• The Indian experience with democratic elections
• Conflict
• Conflict
• Conflict: violence and nonviolence
• Conquest of violence
• Conquest of violence
• Sketches of India
• Conflict
• Conquest of violence
• Conquest of violence
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