Blair, who served as the Prime Minister of United Kingdom for a decade from 1997, noted that commitment to faith can do "immense good" as well as "immense wrong" and said most complex issues in this world have religious dimensions.
Delivering his key note address after the Tony Blair Foundation signed an agreement with Banaras Hindu University to join the Faith and Globalisation Initiative, the veteran Labour leader praised India's multi-cultural and multi-religious society.
"India is an extra-ordinary society. It has whole range of religions and it is one of the largest countries with Muslim population and it is a fascinating place to learn and study about religion," he said.
Tony Blair Foundation's partnership with BHU and a possible future collaboration with Aligarh Muslim University will enable students from the institutions to connect directly with their counterparts across the globe and understand how religion motivates society and the world.
"When we analyse about religion, India is obviously the place to begin and end...India has played an enormous part in helping one understand about religion," he said.
Talking about the crises in Syria and Middle East, the former Premier said Syria was a "classic case" of problems that arises in a multi-cultural society and noted that problems there would never be solved unless the majority and minority are "treated equally".
To a question on his conversion to Catholicism from the Anglican church after stepping down as Premier, he said since he was "occupied" with so many issues during his premiership he could not think about that then.
"There were enough issues then...Then also when I do (when I am the Premier) there will be all sorts of theories and conspiracies," he said.
To another question, he said though he believed in faith, it never had a bearing on his decisions during his tenure as Prime Minister.
