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The Colors Of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion and Conflict, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)

Indian Edition (Delhi: Viking, 1995)

German translation, Die Gewalt der Frommen (Munich: Beck Verlag, 1997)

Hindi translation (Delhi:Rajkamal, in Press)


From Reviews

This is an immensely insightful book, clearly and powerfully written, which takes us to the heart of one of the most important and enigmatic phenomena of our day.
Charles Taylor in IWM

What Sudhir Kakar offers in this impressive, sensitive work……. can serve as a model for future studies – such as the violence in Rwanda, ex-Yugoslavia, China and Tibet, in the states of the former Soviet Union or even between North and South Ireland.
Sud-Deutsche Zeitung, Germany

This is a captivating book which is as exciting to read as a novel… (Kakar) is a modern Indian intellectual who tells fascinating stories from a fascinating country……. a book that can be read easily by individuals from a broad range of disciplines.
Frankfurter Allgemeine, Germany

Will fascinate anyone interested in religious and cultural conflict.
Journal of Indo-European Studies

Has written a readable, important book on an important subject which invites the reader to concern himself with the social and psychological problems of contemporary world.
Psyche

A book that can be read easily by individuals from a broad range of disciplines.
International Journal of Psychoanalysis