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India has a strong multicultural foundation and is known for its unity in diversity. Gandhiji clearly understood this and struggled to build a pluralistic modern India where every culture could flourish. He was fighting against Communal Nationalism and promoted Plural Nationalism as an alternative. Makers of the Indian Constitution gave a strong Secular and Plural framework to the Indian Constitution. Nehru significantly contributed to the development of secular and plural features of Indian polity. This edited volume presents an excellent debate of India's experiments with secularism and pluralism. Eminent scholars like Asghar Ali engineer and Ram Puniani have contributed to this volume. The contributors discuss various vital issues of Indian polity. Prof. K.M. Panikkar an internationally acclaimed historian has given the foreword.