This volume includes essays on a wide range of themes, markedbyvarious distinct
approaches to the study of connectionsbetweenreligion and warfare in Indian
history from earliest timesto thepresent. Such a collection could possibly
causesomeconsternations, even as editors began with the basic premisethatsome of
the critical questions be discussed as freely aspossible,despite constraints of
ideological barriers limiting thefields ofinquiry. Written by a mix of veterans
as well asyoungscholarsRaziuddin Aquil, Richard B. Barnett, C A
Bayly,TorkelBrekke, Richard M Eaton, Michael H Fisher, Pratyay Nath,KaushikRoy,
Arupjyoti Saikia, and Sandhya Sharmathe essays willprovokesome debate on what
all could possibly be undertaken aslegitimatehistorical exercise and whether it
is impossible to writeaprofessional and non-partisan history of