Angana Chatterji tells the story of the Orissa pogroms from the perspective of the voiceless victims. This book is an inspiring example of "emancipatory scholarship". Chatterji's Narratives of the horror and heroism in Kandhamal interrogates our complacency and challenges our conscience. -- Rudolf C. Heredia, Economic and Political Weekly The 'transformation' of Orissa into another Hindutva lab is the central focus of Angana Chatterji's book. Of particular importance in Chatterji's work is the impressive number of interviews... allowing her to get to know a broad spectrum of voices, including revisiting victims of violence. Violent Gods is ... an outcome of a process of interaction and reflection by a researcher who willingly slips into the role of an activist. -- Subhash Gatade, HIMAL Valuable and hitherto undocumented information. -- Parvathi Menon, The Hindu ... Violent Gods, a book authored by scholar and activist Angana P Chatterji, is an important one as it provides the first compendium of material on the contemporary history of the Sangh Parivar and Hindu nationalists in Orissa. -- Archana Prasad, People's Democracy