The colours of violence: cultural identities, religion, and conflict/ Sudhir Kakar.
Material type: TextPublication details: London: University Of Chicago Press, 1996Description: ix, 217 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0226422844Subject(s): Violence | Communalism | Muslims | Conflict (Psychology) | Hindus | Violence--Religious aspectsDDC classification: 303.620954Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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
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