ABSTRACT
Post-colonialism takes as its starting point the parallel developments of homogenisation and heterogenisation, in their concreteness, and several disjunctures or differentiations that they bring to the fore, by working through colonial history from the erased space of the native consciousness. There are, however, scholars like Arjun Appadurai who believe that transnationalism and globalisation go hand in hand and that they actually work together to the advantage of social transformation and newer formations. Proceeding with the idea of an anxiety of incompleteness created in the space between majorities and minorities, it could be argued that the continuing presence of the Muslim in India, in spite of Partition, is the result of a failure of the Indian nation-state. The version of secularism that has failed is one that seeks to distance religion and collective religious aspirations from the political structure and legal processes of a society in a multicultural and pluralist environment.
