In this episode, the connection between ideology and religious identity in India is discussed. Understanding practices of historicization, biased translation, and temple desecration as contributing to the religious ideological state apparatus can enhance our understanding of how ideology operated alongside identity in religion across India. Applying philosophy to historical concepts aids all students of knowledge in their pursuits of developing a robust understanding of what we ought to deduce about the world’s past development and what the potential is for helping in its future progression.