ABSTRACT
This chapter considers Indian political theory as a discipline, keeping the precautions in mind. Mills has argued that Rawls-inspired political theory has tended to model humans, human capacities, interactions, institutions, and society in ideal theory, and has never explored how divergent this is from actual realities, the actual workings of injustice. Comparative political theory aims to take globalization seriously, and remains ever-sensitive to the proximity of other cultures. Comparative theory differs significantly from ideal, formal theory; that is, theory that seeks to impose a universal form onto diverse phenomena. Over the last few decades, the research area of comparative political theory has been making substantial inroads into mainstream academic philosophy and political science departments at universities around the world. March is primarily concerned with the methodology implicit in the term 'comparative'. March's critique is rigorous and his position seems basically sound.
