ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates complete irrelevance of global justice debate to Indian realities and the authentic task of Indian political theory. The proper attitude to the debate, or more accurately, to the global justice industry, is pratyaharic withdrawal. Issues central to global justice are considered sporadically in Rawls' main works from 1950 to 1993. Rawls also emphasizes that the conception of justice employed in The Law of Peoples is the political conception first presented in Political Liberalism rather than the thicker one employed in A Theory of Justice. Amartya Sen, who like many other participants in the Global Justice debate holds John Rawls as a dear friend and mentor, has finally made a decisive break with the Rawlsian tradition of political theorizing, with specific reference to its institutionalism and the problem of global justice. While Sen identifies several problems with the Rawlsian theory of justice, the central and most fundamental one seems to be that it is transcendent and pursues perfection.
