ABSTRACT
Conflicts over religious beliefs and practices have been a persistent feature of societies in South Asia for a long time. Centuries of foreign invasions and regimes have left a bitter and disastrous legacy of communal distrust and strife, leaving communities across the region sharply polarised. These deep fault lines, in the recent decades, have been scarred further by foreign military adventurism in the region, encouraged and supported by weak and complicit civilian and military regimes.
