South Asia is hailed as a region of significant diversity and pluralism for a long time. However, over the last couple of decades, it has also been a hotbed of multiple forms of intolerance, between religious, ethnic, linguistic groups, often manifested in sporadic as well as organised forms of violence. There is sufficient scholarly work in the region documenting the historical background as well as the forms and gravity of violence in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Maldives. For instance, the violence in Gujarat 2002 has brought home the concerns about the ease with which mobilisation could be done for genocidal politics. The region of South Asia thus represents an important hub of plural societies plagued by the rise of politics of intolerance. The Promoting Pluralism Knowledge Programme will focus on the Indian context to study how diversity, intolerance and even violence is dealt with.