Review
`Dr Nirmala Srinivasan is one of the few outstanding Hindu scholars and probably the lone lady from the South, who has devoted considerable time to the study of minorities - Muslims and Christians in North India....A sympathetic and lucid understanding of the `minorities' mind is a must for establishing a true secular, democratic and egalitarian order. Srinivasan's book is one such constructive contribution and endeavour in this direction.' - Eastern Anthropologist
`The author has tried a somewhat uncommon approach to the understanding of communal phenomenon and relationship as perceived by the minorities...and from this point of view the treatise is to be highly appreciated....The book is an excellent effort to understand and analyse the feelings of minorities at the personal identity level. The value of the book is also in the copious extracts, almost verbatim, from the interviews and I think this is one of the daring instants, where such open interviews have been taken and penned. The book is certainly a valuable asset to all those who want to understand the problem from the grassroot level because only rarely do we find so many interviews documented faithfully.' - Manas
Product Description
Prisoners of Faith describes and analyzes the ethnic life force of Muslims and Christians which determines their private-public identity orientations as individual members of India's two largest minority communities. Srinivasan successfully presents the case for conceptualizing minorities in terms of individual perceptions and awareness and synthesises phenomenology and Marxism for the study of personal identity as a social structure and process.
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