Introduction: Democracy and the production of cultural diversity / Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Sudarsan Padmanabhan -- Limits to negotiations of identities / Riva Kastoryano -- Multicultural nationhood and the State in India / Subrata K. Mitra -- Rethinking pluralism and rights: meditative verbs of co-realizations and the challenges of transformations / Ananta Kumar Giri -- Democracy, diversity and contestation: a transnational European perspective / Lise Rolandsen Agustín and Birte Siim -- Democracy promotion and the problem of peaceful co-existence: exploring the 'democratic diplomacy' of India / Kate Helen Sullivan -- Postcolonial cosmopolitanism: making place for nationalism / Rahul Rao -- Descriptive and normative pluralism: making the transition / Neera Chandhoke -- Democracy, pluralism and diversity: India and the European Union between globalization and the nation-state / Daniele Conversi -- Democracy and diversity and the vernacularization framework / Lucia Michelutti -- A comparative study of multiculturalism in theory and practice in the European Union and India / Maryna Rakhlei -- Multiculturalism re-visited / Mandakini V. Jha.