The corncern in this study is how to, as Indian, deter terror and safeguard national integrity. Thedismemberment of India as the goal of Islamic terrorism, of Maoists violence, and of LTTE's perfidy should no more be doubted. In 1998, Osama Bin Laden identified the USA. Israel and India as the main enemies of Islam and targets for their terrorism. In November 1999. In a rally at Peshwer, the "patron" of Lashkar-e-Taiba reaffirmed this target/goal as India. On 8 June 2007, in a cassette distributed in a mosque in Srinagar, the Al-Qaeda further confirmed that for Islam, India as presently constituted ('Hindu-ruled') is their target for terrorist acts. Is secular democratic India in danger of balkanization? It is the thesis of this study that to deter terror, India as a nation must first foster a concept of identity. A strategy to deter terror then can be formulated with that perspective. From a study of nations that have remain united, and contrasted with those which have disintegrated with those which have disintegrated, it seems that the crucial element for national integrity is the concept of 'who we are' that the people within a geo-political boundary accept. This concept, however, has to be nurtured, renewed, continually enriched, and given substance. This present work is devoted to the concept of deterrence of terrorism in the India context, a concept hitherto held to be underfinable. Defining such a concept for India is the main contribution of this study.