ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the points of difference and assimilation floating in the main texture of the Indian cultural text in the form of a native exposition of culture. It explains how Indian cultural text perform a continuous dialogue between the given and the flow of other subterranean tributaries, how the native system with its indigenous text of Indian culture internalizes and interacts in the formation of an identity called 'India'. And how the question of the text and code of culture, too, becomes invested with the context of global vision. In the globalized world now, no single culture can be characterized as dominant. Instead, it is pluralism, the freedom to choose among many different paths and destinations, that is gaining ground due to globalization and greater exchange. The developmental paradigm should register more remote voices, because they constitute the 'real' India. In the contemporary world the politics of culture keeps on constructing and deconstructing cultural identities.
