If you want to know about modern India's plight over religion and politics, than this is the book for you. This book gives the history of India's religion including the British takeover and most importantly India's building of its own government. It outlines India's inherent conflict with its nonsecular values in a secularized world. Larson shows with vivid examples the inseparable intricacy of politics and religion in India. In the end Larson gives his ideas about resolutions for India's conflict between radical Hinduism and radical secularization.