“Bauman enters deeply into the thinking of Hindu nationalists to show that their acts of violence against Christians are motivated not by disputes over doctrine but by an even more basic clash over the role of religion.”
—Foreign Affairs
“Anti-Christian Violence in India runs the gamut of the Christian/anti-Christian experience in India. Well-written and thoughtful, it stands out when describing and analyzing Hindu-Christian relations.”
—Neil DeVotta, Wake Forest University, editor of Understanding Contemporary India
“I am simply blown away by this book. Bauman's voice is judicious and magisterial. He is a careful analyst and thorough investigator. This generates an extraordinarily instructive and illuminating book that manages to be simultaneously balanced and hard-hitting.”
—Timothy Samuel Shah, Vice-President for Strategy & International Research of the Religious Freedom Institute and co-author, God's Century.
“This is a book that was waiting to be written and there may be no one better qualified to write it than Chad Bauman. One hopes that this would encourage more attention to this oft ignored facet of contemporary India which is currently being torn apart on issues of identity and belongingness.”
—Rev. Vijayesh Lal, General Secretary, Evangelical Fellowship of India
“This book fabulously documents majoritarian chauvinism, fears of minorities, and the messy ethno-religious politics and communal relations in India. Bauman skillfully combines theoretical insights with in-depth empirical narratives on everyday inter-religious fissures and produces a masterwork on Hindu-Christian relations and cultural politics in India during the postcolonial period.”
—Sarbeswar Sahoo, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, author of Pentecostalism and Politics of Conversion in India