Religion and Governance in India, c.1000-2000 CE

该项目将大大增加澳大利亚对本地区最重要国家的了解。这将助长这个国家关于世俗主义和多元文化主义之间的适当平衡的持续辩论。这将提高我们的国际学术声誉。通过阐明印度政府设法调解和遏制因交战的原教旨主义而产生的社会紧张局势的方式，它将帮助我们的政策制定者识别澳大利亚社区生活的一些方面，这些方面可能会被与海外恐怖网络有关联的狂热分子所挑衅，从而加强我们的安全。

This project will add significantly to the fund of Australian knowledge about the most important country in our region. It will feed into the continuing debate in this country on the proper balance between secularism and 'multiculturalism'. It will enhance our international scholarly reputation. By illuminating ways in which Indian governments have managed to mediate and contain social tensions produced by warring fundamentalisms, it will assist our policy-makers in identifying aspects of Australian communal life at risk of expolitation by zealots linked to overseas terrorist networks, thereby adding to our security.