The chapter discusses the state of peace and conflict studies in India based on the author’s reflections as an early exponent of the discipline. It provides the context in which the author came to Peace Studies as a faculty of Gandhian Studies and the difficulties in finding adequate materials to teach the subject during the 1980s. It also provides an account of the evolution of the discipline in India and the institutions where the subject was taught either as a separate discipline or as a part of Gandhian Studies. Although reasonably strong Gandhian Studies programmes were in place, insights from such studies have not enriched the subject. The author discusses the reasons. The chapter also describes the failure of higher secondary education, the Indian Council for Social Science Research, and the University Grants Commission of India to grant due prominence to the discipline. The author’s experiences as a student, research fellow, lecturer, and Professorial Chairholder of Peace Studies in different countries and the learning they entailed are also discussed extensively in the chapter. The chapter concludes with a pessimistic note on the discipline’s future in India because the political and educational climate needed for its flourishing does not exist in the country.