ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the philosophical possibility of a Gandhian intervention into the debate about secularism, a debate that has been one of the most crucial in the construction of the Indian polity. The reconciliation of the need to live together as a people and the presence of religious and cultural pluralism is one that the Indian polity has been struggling with, ever since it commenced the process of constructing the Indian nation. The reconstruction of a possible Gandhian intervention into this debate has been of interest to academics from both the extreme right as well as from the left. Moral and religious truth are integrated with each other and with Gandhian ahimsa. In the context of a pluralism of religious faiths, the truth is to be arrived at in the context of other religious communities.
