6 - Minority Rights, Secularism, and Justice

Summary

Neera Chandhoke focuses on the question of secularism as an expression and a tool for the pursuit of justice. In the process, she reflects on how India came to borrow but adapt as well the notion of secularism, which initially emerged in the West. Chandhoke also alludes to the challenges associated with doing political theory and global political theory in a context that is dominated by Western ways of thinking and paradigms. Important for the future is to identify ways through which the problematization of justice, especially at the global level, would recognize and engineer greater agency to developing countries and their people.