The colors of violence : cultural identities, religion, and conflict
For decades India has been intermittently tormented by brutal outbursts of religious violence, thrusting thousands of ordinary Hindus and Muslims into bloody conflict. In this provocative work, psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar exposes the psychological roots of Hindu-Muslim violence and examines with grace and intensity the subjective experience of religious hatred in his native land
xiii, 217 pages ; 24 cm
9780226422848, 9780226422855, 0226422844, 0226422852
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Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Setting
Shifting Perspectives
The City: "Unparalleled in the World"
Hindus and Muslims: Versions of the Past
Between Enemy Lines
2. The Riot
The Story of a Cousin Told by His Elder Brother
The Cousin from Lahore
Territory and Passion
Profile of a Riot
Hyderabad: December 1990
3. The Warriors
Testing the Tigers
The Violent Poet
Young Tigers and Pussy Cats
Spreading the Wind
Psyche and Wrestling
4. Victims and Others I: The Hindus
A Pardi Family
Pardis and the Modern World
The Night of Long Knives
Pardis and Muslims: The Past
Image of the Muslim
Gandi, Psychoanalysts, and Cows
Children's Tales
5. Victims and Others II: The Muslims
Rashid's Family
Days and Nights of the Riot
Barbar's Children
The Victim Response
Morality of Violence
Morality and the Hindus
6. A New Hindu Identity
Shadows of Mourning
Secred Wounds
Cultural Identity and Cure
Psychology versus Politics?
Search for Hindu-ness
The Virtuous Virago
7. The Muslim Fundamentalist Identity
Meeting the Mullahs
Religious Politics
8. Conclusion: Religious Conflict in the Modern World
Religious Identities and Violence
Histories and Futures
Appendixes
1. The Giessen Test
2. The Morality Interview
Notes
Index