MULTICULTURALISM AND INDIAN EDUCATIONAL POLICIES

India is a land of myriad languages, cultures, ethnic groups. Apart from it, the country has followers from different religious faith of the world. India is the amalgamation of diverse sub cultures spread all over the country and traditions that are millennia's old. India has been extremely sensitive to the importance of recognizing, protecting, and promoting cultural differences. Therefore, this paper tried to focus on the constitutional provisions of India in relation to multiculturalism. The paper has attempt to highlight the educational policies of India addressing cultural diversity in different levels of education i.e. primary, secondary, higher, teacher education. On the basis of the review it can be concluded that the Indian constitution and educational policies provides a well balanced model of multiculturalism . It is the need of the hour to transcend the multicultural perspective from policy level to the active public sphere especially in the education sector.