Advance praise: 'Gould's magnificent tour d'horizon provides a very comprehensive and insightful account of religion and conflict in South Asia, straddling the colonial and postcolonial periods. The author has achieved an ideal combination of depth of analysis with breadth of coverage, weaving his way through some of the major academic debates in the field. The book will, no doubt, become an authoritative text for the study of this important subject.' Nandini Gooptu, University of Oxford.